[U-Boot-Users] u-boot kernel parameters

[Stefan Roese]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 22:56, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hmmm, I am pretty sure Ocotea linuxppc_2_4_devel worked a few month's ago
> (with U-Boot of course). I will give it a try tomorrow and let you know.

As it seems the current version doesn't compile for ocotea:

make[4]: Entering directory 
`/chroot/server/home/stefan/git/linuxppc_2_4_devel/drivers/net/ibm_emac'
ppc_4xx-gcc -D__KERNEL__ 
-I/chroot/server/home/stefan/git/linuxppc_2_4_devel/include -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
-fomit-frame-pointer 
-I/chroot/server/home/stefan/git/linuxppc_2_4_devel/arch/ppc -fsigned-char 
-msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring 
-Wa,-m405   -nostdinc 
-I /opt/eldk-3.1.1/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ppc-linux/3.3.3/include 
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=ibm_ocp_enet  -c -o ibm_ocp_enet.o ibm_ocp_enet.c
ibm_ocp_enet.c:158: error: parse error before "__res"
ibm_ocp_enet.c:158: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `__res'
ibm_ocp_enet.c:158: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
ibm_ocp_enet.c: In function `emac_init':
ibm_ocp_enet.c:1981: error: `bd_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
ibm_ocp_enet.c:1981: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ibm_ocp_enet.c:1981: error: for each function it appears in.)
ibm_ocp_enet.c:1981: error: `bd' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[4]: *** [ibm_ocp_enet.o] Error 1

If you don't get this error, your linuxppc_2_4_devel version is outdated. With 
this small patch below this is fixed and the ocotea boots again:

71a72
> #include "asm/ppcboot.h" /* test-only: ocotea build */

## Booting image at 00200000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-2.4.25
   Created:      2006-02-08   5:44:06 UTC
   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    649445 Bytes = 634.2 kB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Linux version 2.4.25 (stefan at ubuntu) (gcc version 3.3.3 (DENX ELDK 3.1.1 
3.3.3-9)) #1 Wed Feb 8 06:41:37 CET 2006
IBM Ocotea port (MontaVista Software, Inc. <source at mvista.com>)
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
zone(0): 65536 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/opt/eldk/ppc_4xx 
ip=192.168.80.2:192.168.1.1::255.255.0.0:ocotea:eth0:off panic=1 
console=ttyS0,115200
Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 257000k available (976k kernel code, 320k data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI 
enabled
ttyS00 at 0xfdfea200 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xfdfe9300 (irq = 1) is a 16550A
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
emac: IBM OCP EMAC Ethernet driver, version 2.1
Maintained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
mal0: Initialized, 8 tx channels, 4 rx channels
zmii0: input 0 in SMII mode
eth0: IBM emac, MAC 00:01:73:01:dd:ac
eth0: Found Generic MII PHY (0x01)
zmii0: input 1 in SMII mode
eth1: IBM emac, MAC 00:01:73:01:dd:ad
eth1: Found Generic MII PHY (0x02)
zmii0: input 2 in SMII mode
rgmii0: input 0 in RGMII mode
eth2: IBM emac, MAC 00:01:73:01:dd:ae
eth2: Found CIS8201 Gigabit Ethernet PHY (0x10)
zmii0: input 3 in SMII mode
rgmii0: input 1 in RGMII mode
eth3: IBM emac, MAC 00:01:73:01:dd:af
eth3: Found CIS8201 Gigabit Ethernet PHY (0x18)
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
IP-Config: Complete:
      device=eth0, addr=192.168.80.2, mask=255.255.0.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
     host=ocotea, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=192.168.1.1, rootserver=192.168.1.1, rootpath=
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.1
eth0: Link is Up
eth0: Speed: 100, Full duplex.
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.1.1
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k init
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies 
file /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
INIT: version 2.84 booting
                Welcome to DENX Embedded Linux Environment
                Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Building the cache [  OK  ]
Mounting proc filesystem:  [  OK  ]
Configuring kernel parameters:  [  OK  ]
Setting clock : Wed Feb  8 08:38:58 MET 2006 [  OK  ]
Setting hostname ocotea:  [  OK  ]
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.dep (No 
such file or directory)
Activating swap partitions:  [  OK  ]
Finding module dependencies:  depmod: Can't 
open /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.dep for writing
[FAILED]
Checking filesystems
[  OK  ]
Mounting local filesystems:  [  OK  ]
Enabling swap space:  [  OK  ]
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.dep (No 
such file or directory)
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Entering non-interactive startup
Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
Starting system logger: [  OK  ]
Starting kernel logger: [  OK  ]
Initializing random number generator:  [  OK  ]
Starting portmapper: [  OK  ]
Mounting NFS filesystems:  [  OK  ]
Mounting other filesystems:  [  OK  ]
Starting xinetd: [  OK  ]

ocotea login: 


Best regards,
Stefan