Daniel Mack wrote: > > Hi Tony et al, > > I'm having problems booting newer kernels on a Gumstix Overo board. > > I enabled CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK to see any messages at all, and see a > number of warnings first and then lots of garbled binary junk once the > UART is set up. > > This is Linus' current master branch plus your latest fixes from > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git fixes > > > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. > [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.0.0-rc3-00209-g64db347-dirty > (daniel@jup) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Buildroot 2010.11-git) ) #24 SMP Fri > Jun 17 15:42:59 CEST 2011 > [ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [411fc083] revision 3 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7f > [ 0.000000] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing > instruction cache > [ 0.000000] Machine: Gumstix Overo > [ 0.000000] Ignoring tag cmdline (using the default kernel command line) > [ 0.000000] bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled > [ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback > [ 0.000000] OMAP3503 ES3.1 (l2cache neon isp ) > [ 0.000000] SRAM: Mapped pa 0x40200000 to va 0xfe400000 size: 0x10000 > [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 65536 > [ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c065e9e0, > node_mem_map c0bb5000 > [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 512 pages used for memmap > [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved > [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 65024 pages, LIFO batch:15 > [ 0.000000] Clocking rate (Crystal/Core/MPU): 26.0/331/500 MHz > [ 0.000000] Reprogramming SDRC clock to 331882352 Hz > [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 7 pages/cpu @c0dba000 s5952 r8192 d14528 u32768 > [ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s5952 r8192 d14528 u32768 alloc=8*4096 > [ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 > [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. > Total pages: 65024 > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: debug earlyprintk > console=ttyS2,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootfstype=ext3 rootwait Here is your problem. We now use the OMAP-serial driver for the UARTs. Change the ttyS2 to ttyO2 and you should be fine. - Anand -- 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