On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:45:06PM +0100, Matteo Croce wrote: > Tried I get teh usual broken serial output: > > IP6 oover IPv4 tuneliing driver > NET: eggistered protooll family 17 > VFS: Monteed root (squahfss filesystem)reaadonly. Linux version 2.6.25-rc6-00000-g151de9e-dirty (tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040320)) #29 Fri Mar 21 02:40:21 CET 2008 console [early0] enabled CPU revision is: 00018448 (MIPS 4KEc) TI AR7 (Unknown), ID: 0x5700, Revision: 0x00 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 02000000 @ 14000000 (usable) Zone PFN ranges: Normal 81920 -> 90112 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 81920 -> 90112 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8128 Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 Primary instruction cache 16kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 16 bytes. Primary data cache 16kB, 4-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 16 bytes Synthesized clear page handler (26 instructions). Synthesized copy page handler (46 instructions). PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Memory: 29700k/32768k available (2075k kernel code, 3068k reserved, 466k data, 136k init, 0k highmem) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 net_namespace: 152 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 SCSI subsystem initialized NET: Registered protocol family 2 Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed. IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) TCP reno registered io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) io scheduler deadline registered Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x8610e03 (irq = 15) is a 16550A console handover: boot [early0] -> real [ttyS0] serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x8610f03 (irq = 16) is a 16550A loop: module loaded Fixed MDIO Bus: probed ar7_wdt: failed to unlock WDT disable reg ar7_wdt: failed to unlock WDT prescale reg ar7_wdt: failed to unlock WDT change reg ar7_wdt: timer margin 59 seconds (prescale 65535, change 57180, freq 62500000) TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 RPC: Registered udp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp transport module. Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. List of all partitions: No filesystem could mount root, tried: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) Rebooting in 3 seconds.. I don't see any problems with using PORT_16550A. What I'm still wondering how your kernel could work at all, since there is a missing case for setting up the TLB refill handler. Something like the patch below. And most of the AR7 device driver code will not work for big endian. The log above is from a big endian AR7 system, where I needed to disable CPMAC to get it booting that far. Thomas. diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c index 3a93d4c..382738c 100644 --- a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c +++ b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c @@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ static void __cpuinit build_tlb_write_entry(u32 **p, struct uasm_label **l, case CPU_R12000: case CPU_R14000: case CPU_4KC: + case CPU_4KEC: case CPU_SB1: case CPU_SB1A: case CPU_4KSC: -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]