Subject: Re: Init hangs on Xilinx4

From: "David H. Lynch Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:41:17 -0500

I had a similar problem. In my instance it turned out that I was
inadvertently using the physical address of my uart as the output address.
This worked during boot becasue there was a 1:1 physical-logical entry
stuffed into the MMU. But since Linux did nto know about it, as soon as
the VM system decided to use that TLB entry IO died - right in the
middle of a string.

While it is unlikely you made exactly the same mistake. One area you can
check is memory.

What is your output device ?

schardt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i still have some problems booting linux from flash and don't know how
> to debug.
>
> i have a xilinx4-ppc with 64MB Ram and 4MB Flash, U-Boot works fine,
> kernel is booting, but my little hello world program runs as init, died
> after printing "He" (intead of "Hello World"). i tried initramfs with
> build in cpio-image and jffs2 rootfs
>
> Is there a log-buffer to look at ?
> Should i try another compiler version ? (btw. booting from systemace
> works with the version i use).
>
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> He
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>
> regards
> Georg
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