Hi, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@xxxxxx> wrote: > Pass minimal data needed for console boot, from dt, for > OMAP4 panda/sdp and OMAP3 beagle boards, and get rid of the > static initialization from generic board file. ... > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c > index 63b5416..a508ed5 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-generic.c > @@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ static void __init omap_generic_init(void) > if (node) > irq_domain_add_simple(node, 0); > > - omap_serial_init(); > omap_sdrc_init(NULL, NULL); > > of_platform_populate(NULL, omap_dt_match_table, NULL, NULL); > -- > 1.7.1 I'm fairly new to DT and I'm trying to boot it with pandaboard and k3.3, however above hunk deletes omap serial initialization, which causes a panic on boot, because pdata is NULL: static void serial_omap_start_tx(struct uart_port *port) { ... if (pdata->set_noidle) Perhaps because this change skips the following path: omap_serial_init->omap_serial_board_init->omap_serial_init_port Where pdata is built in omap_device_build. I'm just trying to confirm that I'm not alone or doing some silly thing before getting in depth with the code. Here it is the panic: [ 2.024688] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000028 [ 2.031005] pgd = ed6f0000 [ 2.036315] [00000028] *pgd=af339831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 [ 2.042907] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP [ 2.046630] Modules linked in: [ 2.046630] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.3.0-00002-gda19af1-dirty #11) [ 2.046630] PC is at serial_omap_start_tx+0x1cc/0x218 [ 2.046630] LR is at serial_omap_start_tx+0x1b8/0x218 [ 2.067840] pc : [<c02b3a54>] lr : [<c02b3a40>] psr: 60000193 [ 2.067840] sp : c21cbe70 ip : 00000001 fp : a0000113 [ 2.073699] r10: ef107000 r9 : ed684600 r8 : 0000001c [ 2.085327] r7 : 00000002 r6 : 00000007 r5 : 00000000 r4 : ed684600 [ 2.086029] r3 : ef1281c0 r2 : fa020000 r1 : 00000004 r0 : c02b3a40 [ 2.086029] Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user [ 2.101684] Control: 10c53c7d Table: ad6f004a DAC: 00000015 [ 2.101684] Process S10udev (pid: 497, stack limit = 0xc21ca2f8) [ 2.116973] Stack: (0xc21cbe70 to 0xc21cc000) [ 2.123443] be60: a0000113 c0475b74 00000002 00000000 [ 2.126007] be80: c02ac7e0 ef107000 ed684600 20000113 00000000 c02ac830 00000000 ed690ad0 [ 2.139099] bea0: ed6e981c c02ae348 c02ae288 ef107000 c21ca000 0000001c ed6e9800 ef1074fc [ 2.145385] bec0: c049cab4 ef1dcd80 ed6e9800 c0296aa8 60000113 c02925e8 ef107194 ef107120 [ 2.152191] bee0: ef0003c0 00000000 ef1281c0 c0076214 ef1071b4 ef1071b4 ef1074b4 ef1dcd80 [ 2.159790] bf00: ef107000 b6f5c000 0000001c c21ca000 00000400 00000000 c02968c8 c0292638 [ 2.159790] bf20: c06e3ea0 0000001c c02968c8 ef168b80 c21cbf80 00000000 ef1281c0 ef1dcd80 [ 2.175811] bf40: 0000001c b6f5c000 c21cbf80 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c010841c [ 2.188476] bf60: c0014400 ef1281c0 ef1dcd80 b6f5c000 0000001c 00000004 00000000 c0108570 [ 2.195068] bf80: 00000000 00000000 0000001c 00000000 0000001c b6f345c8 0000001c c00144a8 [ 2.195068] bfa0: c21ca000 c00142e0 0000001c b6f345c8 00000001 b6f5c000 0000001c 00000000 [ 2.210723] bfc0: 0000001c b6f345c8 0000001c 00000004 b6f5c000 00000000 00000001 00000000 [ 2.210723] bfe0: 00000000 be988948 b6e5ae98 b6eb7adc 60000110 00000001 89389af9 fef855e7 [ 2.226379] [<c02b3a54>] (serial_omap_start_tx+0x1cc/0x218) from [<c02ac830>] (uart_start+0x68/0x6c) [ 2.241973] [<c02ac830>] (uart_start+0x68/0x6c) from [<c02ae348>] (uart_write+0xc0/0xe4) [ 2.241973] [<c02ae348>] (uart_write+0xc0/0xe4) from [<c0296aa8>] (n_tty_write+0x1e0/0x42c) [ 2.257629] [<c0296aa8>] (n_tty_write+0x1e0/0x42c) from [<c0292638>] (tty_write+0x140/0x23c) [ 2.270446] [<c0292638>] (tty_write+0x140/0x23c) from [<c010841c>] (vfs_write+0xb0/0x134) [ 2.278594] [<c010841c>] (vfs_write+0xb0/0x134) from [<c0108570>] (sys_write+0x40/0x70) [ 2.281311] [<c0108570>] (sys_write+0x40/0x70) from [<c00142e0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c) Regards, Omar -- 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