[ELDK] U-Boot version required to boot kernel 3.10 on PowerPC

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Wed Jun 25 15:49:25 CEST 2014


On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 09:45:13 AM, Peter Oruba wrote:
> Am 24.06.2014 um 16:04 schrieb Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>:
> > On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 08:53:10 AM, Peter Oruba wrote:
> > [...].
> > 
> >>> Did you try to disable early printk?
> >> 
> >> Early printk config options gets automatically enabled by the kernel
> >> Makefile, however, I disabled all items in the kernel debug section.
> >> Still no change.
> > 
> > You can try appending "earlyprintk" to the kernel command line and see if
> > that gets you anything on the console (maybe some early backtrace during
> > kernel boot?). To actually enable the earlyprintk output, one needs to
> > use this argument on the kernel command line.
> 
> Did that, still no change.

Ouch, this means even the early console cannot start.

> > btw you do pass the DT blob to the kernel correctly, right ?
> 
> Yes, that is passed to a low address where it won’t interfere with kernel
> unpacking. The DT i am using blob is the same that used to work with my
> 2.6 kernel.

OK, I will bail out from here, since I am not a PPC expert. Sorry.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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