[ELDK] ppc boot fails at PCI detection.

[renjith kumar]

Dear Wolfgang Denk,

I am using Embedded Planet Sequoia board " DES0211 11FAB 11" based on
AMCCPowerPC (PPC440EPx-SUA533T
/ 2/20/2007).
      [ Sequoia - AMCC PPC440EPx Evaluation Board, Rev. F, PCI=33 MHz  ].
and
      U-Boot 1.2.0-gc0c292b2 (Jun  5 2007 - 07:16:12)
and
      I am using eldk 4.2 ( Linux-2.6.24 ).


I have also tried , latest u-boot from git (U-Boot 2009.03-rc1-00000-g00cc55
) with a nand-boot option(u-boot-nand.bin) and found thing are same.

"Some times' hanging at
        PCI:   Bus Dev VenId DevId Class Int
or at
       Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
while Linux boot Up.

I used a PCI card (DVR-video capture card v2.2). It got detected and not
hanging.
If I use a PCI-SATA (PCI v2.3) card (SIL3114, SATA1 from Silicon Image), it
has more frequent problem.
So I am also doubting, even it could be a Hardware trouble (at the interface
level).

To nullify the SATA BIOS influence , I tried Removing the Device ROM chip
and tried , but result same.

(2)
Also at this occasion, I would like to know, is there any special support
needed to be done at BootLoader , so that it will support PCI-SATA card.
Because, In normal desktop , we needed to enable SATA support specially in
BIOS, to detect the card and its function.

With Thanks ,
Renjith


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Renjith,
>
> In message <a8474bd70903020155y17f5b1f5o459fd4cab1cc5d63 at mail.gmail.com>
> you wrote:
> >
> > I get kernel hanging problem after "*Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK*".
> > message. (Not always , but most of the time :( ..)
> > I use the ppc_4xxFP based Sequoia board with 2 PCI slots.
>
> Which revision of Sequoia board is this? And which exact versions of
> U-Boot and Linux are you running on it?
>
> Do you have any PCI cards plugged in? Which ones? And what happens when
> you remove these?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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Thanks'n Regards,
Renjith.