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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
To: Daniel Ng <daniel_ng11@lycos•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Device Tree setup for 8272-based board
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:09:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49510D2A.4010906@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20081223T003725-939@post.gmane.org>

Daniel Ng wrote:
> Scott Wood <scottwood <at> freescale.com> writes:
>> cuboot-824x is for 8240, 8245, and similar chips.  You want cuboot-pq2.
> 
> Hi Scott et al,
> 
> I seem to get further with the cuboot-824x file- with the cuboot-pq2 file 

Nonetheless, cuboot-pq2 is the correct one.

> the boot sequence doesn't even reach the 'zImage starting' stage. The machine 
> reboots just before it should be printing out 'zImage starting'. 

What does it print before it reboots?  Try disabling the PCI and 
localbus setup.

> Is there a way I can get more detailed debug to see what's happening?

printf(). :-)

> Do settings from bd_info struct override the settings from the DTS file?

Yes.

> Also, a lot of the settings passed from u-boot in our 2.6.14 environment are 
> plain wrong eg. wrong memory, wrong processor speed. In this case, the correct 
> settings are set elsewhere (for memory, it is a kernel parameter ie. mem=32M, 
> and the processor speed is set in the 2.6.14 'make menuconfig'). Therefore, 
> the machine still boots into Linux correctly. For 2.6.27, would these 
> incorrect settings be causing my problems?

Yes, if u-boot is providing junk, then you'll probably want to hack up 
the wrapper to ignore it.  Or just upgrade u-boot to one that works. :-)

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-23 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-19  6:31 Device Tree setup for 8272-based board Daniel Ng
2008-12-19 16:37 ` mingqian
2008-12-19 20:03 ` Scott Wood
2008-12-22  6:57   ` Daniel Ng
2008-12-22 17:37     ` Scott Wood
2008-12-23  0:52   ` Daniel Ng
2008-12-23 16:09     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-12-23 23:21       ` Daniel Ng
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-16  1:22 Daniel Ng
2009-01-16  3:40 ` Daniel Ng
2009-01-16 18:14   ` Scott Wood
2009-01-19  1:58     ` Daniel Ng
2009-01-19 17:29       ` Scott Wood
2009-01-20  7:23       ` Daniel Ng
2009-01-20 16:41         ` Scott Wood
2009-01-21  7:37           ` Daniel Ng
2009-01-21 17:52             ` Scott Wood
2009-01-22  7:47               ` Daniel Ng
2009-01-22 17:05                 ` Scott Wood

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