Hi Gilad,
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 5:29 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I have an R-Car 3rd gen Salvator-X ES1 board. I've been able to boot
>>> Linux 4.9 on it from the rareness-bsp tree, using the defconfig and
>>> the r8a7795-es1-salvator-x DTB with no problems, so the HW is fine.
>>>
>>> However, I can't seem to boot an upstream kernel (Linus master or
>>> soc-for-v4.17 branch) on it. I just get total silence on the UART
>>> after u-boot.
>>>
>>> Any tips or ideas for me to try?
>>
>> Please try appending the following to the kernel command line:
>>
>> earlycon keep_bootcon
>>
>> FWIW, I'm using:
>>
>> tftpboot 0x48080000 h3-salvator-x/Image
>> tftpboot 0x49f00000 h3-salvator-x/r8a7795-es1-salvator-x.dtb
>> booti 0x48080000 - 0x49f00000
>>
>> Which firmware revision do you have? It may be too old to boot moden
>> (large) kernel images. Check the first line of BL2 output.
>>
>> Which config are you using? Please try renesas_defconfig from Simon's
>> repository.
>
> That was it. I was building with defoncfig and getting a kernel that won't be.
> Simon's config did the trick.
Good to hear you succeeded!
FWIW, mine boots v4.17-rc5 fine, using arm64 defconfig.
My firmware is:
BL2: R-Car Gen3 Initial Program Loader(CA57) Rev.1.0.12
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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