[U-Boot-Users] u-boot and linux-2.6.9
George G. Davis
gdavis at mvista.com
Mon Dec 20 21:30:16 CET 2004
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:37:25PM +0100, jean-paul.saman at philips.com wrote:
> I am trying to boot on an ARM-Integrator AP a linux-2.6.9 kernel with
> u-boot. I tried u-boot-1.1.1 stable and cvs, but both result in "data
> abort" just at the point of "Starting kernel .... ". Here is the dump from
> minicom:
>
> Integrator-AP # bootm 24400000
> Boot reached stage 1
> ## Booting image at 24400000 ...
> Boot reached stage 2
> Boot reached stage 3
> Image Name: Linux-2.6.9
> Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> Data Size: 1216080 Bytes = 1.2 MB
> Load Address: 00008000
> Entry Point: 00008000
> Boot reached stage 4
> Boot reached stage 5
> Boot reached stage 6
> OK
> Boot reached stage 7
> Boot reached stage 8
> Boot reached stage 14
> No initrd
> Boot reached stage 15
> ## Transferring control to Linux (at address 00008000) ...
>
> Starting kernel ...
>
> data abort
> pc : [<0000801c>] lr : [<0100bcbc>]
That is a rather odd address to have an abort at assuming you're using
the uImage obtained from `make uImage` because there are normally NOPs
from 0x8000 through 0x801f, e.g.
../BUILD/integrator/default/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux: file format elf32-littlearm
Disassembly of section .text:
00000000 <start>:
0: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
4: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
8: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
c: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
10: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
14: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
18: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
1c: e1a00000 nop (mov r0,r0)
20: ea000002 b 30 <_text+0x30>
> sp : 00fd7bd4 ip : 00fd7bc4 fp : 00fd7c10
> r10: 00000000 r9 : 00fd7c84 r8 : 00fd7fdc
> r7 : 0100f1b4 r6 : 0100f1b4 r5 : 00000000 r4 : 24400040
> r3 : e1a00001 r2 : 00000100 r1 : e1a00000 r0 : 00000000
> Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32
> Resetting CPU ...
>
> Has anyone succeeded in booting a 2.6.x kernel with u-boot?
FWIW, I just booted 2.6.10-rc3 bk latest on IntegratorAP with ARM920T
processor module using latest u-boot CVS:
Integrator-AP # bootm 0x800000
## Booting image at 00800000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.10-rc3
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 1199040 Bytes = 1.1 MB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 00008000) ...
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux.................................................................................. done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.6.10-rc3 (gdavis at localhost) (gcc version 3.3.1 (MontaVista 3.3.1-3.0.10.0300532 2003-12-24)) #6 Mon Dec 20 14:46:41 EST 2004
CPU: ARM920Tid(wb) [41129200] revision 0 (ARMv4T)
CPU: D VIVT write-back cache
CPU: I cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 64, 32 byte lines, 8 sets
CPU: D cache: 16384 bytes, associativity 64, 32 byte lines, 8 sets
Machine: ARM-Integrator
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=ttyAM0,38400n8 root=/dev/nfs ip=bootp mem=32M
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 32MB = 32MB total
Memory: 29696KB available (1864K code, 458K data, 308K init)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
PCI: Bus 1, bridge: 0000:00:09.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
JFFS2 version 2.2. (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
matroxfb: Matrox Millennium II (PCI) detected
matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x13081)
matroxfb: framebuffer at 0x50000000, mapped to 0xc2880000, size 8388608
fb0: MATROX frame buffer device
fb0: initializing hardware
Serial: AMBA driver $Revision: 1.41 $
ttyAM0 at MMIO 0x16000000 (irq = 1) is a AMBA
ttyAM1 at MMIO 0x17000000 (irq = 2) is a AMBA
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.2.3-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x40908000, irq 16, MAC addr 00:03:47:95:50:65
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex
Sending BOOTP requests . OK
IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.1.103, my address is 192.168.1.84
IP-Config: Complete:
device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.84, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.1.1,
host=192.168.1.84, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
bootserver=192.168.1.103, rootserver=192.168.1.103, rootpath=/tftpboot/integrator
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.103
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.1.103
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
INIT: version 2.78 booting
Activating swap...
Checking all file systems...
fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
Calculating module dependencies... done.
Loading modules:
Mounting local filesystems...
nothing was mounted
Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate.
Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
Disable TCP/IP Explicit Congestion Notification: done.
Configuring network interfaces: done.
Starting portmap daemon: portmap.
Mounting remote filesystems...
Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
Starting internet superserver: inetd.
MontaVista(R) Linux(R) Professional Edition 3.1
192.168.1.84 login:
>
> Kind greetings,
>
> Jean-Paul Saman
--
Regards,
George
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