* Michael Welling <mwelling@xxxxxxxxxxx> [140718 09:15]: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 09:40:48AM -0500, Michael Welling wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > * mwelling <mwelling@xxxxxxxxxxx> [140717 16:42]: > > >> I am in the process of porting a device tree compatible version of the > > >> linux kernel to a AM3517 based device. > > >> > > >> First I tried 3.10.x and the device tree port appeared to be incomplete. > > >> Neither the LCD or Ethernet were supported. > > >> > > >> Next I tried 3.14.x and the Ethernet driver appeared to work but still > > >> no LCD support. > > >> > > >> Lastly I tried 3.16-rc5 and found that the kernel hangs in early boot > > >> without any messages from the serial COM. > > > > > > For device tree based booting on omap3 I would user v.16-rc4 or later. > > > There have been multiple issues fixed over past year and PM is working > > > finally at least for 36xx/37xx. And we do have the DSS panels finally > > > working too. > > > > > >> I was using the omap2plus_defconfig and the am3517-evm.dtb from each > > >> kernel build. Is there any reason why the kernel would start hanging > > >> with the newest release? > > > > > > No reason that I can think of. AFAIK 3517 has been booting in the test > > > farms just fine? > > > > > > Can you please enable debug_ll + earlyprintk and pass also earlyprintk > > > in the kernel cmdline? > > I will try this. > > > > > >> Are there any versions where the LCD output works? > > > > > > Starting with v3.16-rc1 you should get the LCD working for panel-dpi > > > based devices. Most of them actually are actually ls037v3dw01, so > > > see omap3-panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01.dtsi and omap3-evm-common.dtsi > > > variants if you have similar setup. > > > > > >> Looking at the 3.16-rc5 test results just posted it is supposed to be working > > >> but I have not been able to replicate this. > > >> > > >> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Hmm maybe double check your're booting device tree based kernel > > > instead of legacy machine ID based kernel? The legacy booting should > > > still work just fine and no changes has been made to it, but it will > > > get removed shortly. > > I downloaded the version from the test results and it did boot. > > These are combining the uImage and dtb. How do you accomplish this? > > It should be noted that when you try to boot the seperate zImage and dtb from > the test build it fails. This replicates my issue. > > Here are the two binaries that I used: > http://www.pwsan.com/omap/testlogs/test_v3.16-rc5/20140716140950/build_z/omap2plus_defconfig/zImage > http://www.pwsan.com/omap/testlogs/test_v3.16-rc5/20140716140950/dtbs/am3517-evm.dtb > > Here is the boot attempt: > U-Boot> dhcp;set serverip 10.0.2.168;tftp 0x82000000 zImage; tftp 0x80000000 am3517-evm.dtb;bootz 0x82000000 - 0x80000000 > BOOTP broadcast 1 > DHCP client bound to address 10.0.3.33 > Using DaVinci-EMAC device > TFTP from server 10.0.2.168; our IP address is 10.0.3.33 > Filename 'zImage'. > Load address: 0x82000000 > Loading: ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ###################################### > 2 MiB/s > done > Bytes transferred = 4360800 (428a60 hex) > Using DaVinci-EMAC device > TFTP from server 10.0.2.168; our IP address is 10.0.3.33 > Filename 'am3517-evm.dtb'. > Load address: 0x80000000 > Loading: #### > 1.8 MiB/s > done > Bytes transferred = 50145 (c3e1 hex) > Kernel image @ 0x82000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x428a60 ] > ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 80000000 > Booting using the fdt blob at 0x80000000 > Loading Device Tree to 9ff05000, end 9ff143e0 ... OK > > Starting kernel ... > > Using the exact same boot sequence worked for 3.10 and 3.14. Hmm maybe we still have some relocation issues left and the kernel or the .dtb size has changed enough to cause trouble. Can you try with .dtb at a different address? Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
