[U-Boot-Users] u-boot, powerpc with device tree, initrd problem

[John Linn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Van Baren [mailto:gerald.vanbaren at ge.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:27 PM
> To: John Linn
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] u-boot, powerpc with device tree, initrd
problem

[snip]

> 
> You might try loading your dtb and then use the "fdt chosen" command
to
> create the /chosen node and the "fdt bd" command to run the
> board-specific fixups.  Do these as two separate steps and run "fdt
> print" in between to see what changes occur.

I don't have any board specific fixups. We have the chosen already in
the dts before I compile it to a blob.  We do this because with the FPGA
many people don't use a boot loader.

> 
> > => bootm 0x1c00000 0x1800000 0x1000000
> > ## Booting image at 01c00000 ...
> >    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.26-rc8
> >    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> >    Data Size:    1536962 Bytes =  1.5 MB
> >    Load Address: 00000000
> >    Entry Point:  00000000
> >    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> >    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> > ## Current stack ends at 0x0FEA5990 => set upper limit to 0x00800000
> > ## cmdline at 0x007FFF00 ... 0x007FFF3A
> > bd address  = 0x0FEA5E80
> > memstart    = 0x00000000
> > memsize     = 0x10000000
> > flashstart  = 0x00000000
> > flashsize   = 0x00000000
> > flashoffset = 0x00000000
> > sramstart   = 0x00000000
> > sramsize    = 0x00000000
> > bootflags   = 0x0FEA4C88
> > procfreq    =    400 MHz
> > plb_busfreq =     20 MHz
> > ethaddr     = 00:0A:35:01:02:03
> > IP addr     = 172.16.40.227
> > baudrate    =   9600 bps
> > Not skipping initrd
> > ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 01800000 ...
> >    Image Name:
> >    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
> >    Data Size:    1507104 Bytes =  1.4 MB
> >    Load Address: 00000000
> >    Entry Point:  00000000
> >    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> >    Booting using the fdt at 0x1000000
> > ## initrd at 0x01800040 ... 0x0196FF5F (len=1507104=0x16FF20)
> >    Loading Ramdisk to 0fd35000, end 0fea4f20 ... OK
> > ## device tree at 0x01000000 ... 0x01002FFF (len=12288=0x3000)
> >    Loading Device Tree to 007fc000, end 007fefff ... OK
> > ## Transferring control to Linux (at address 00000000) ...
> > Using Xilinx Virtex machine description
> > Linux version 2.6.26-rc8 (linnj at wolfgang-pc) (gcc version 4.0.0
(DENX
> > ELDK 4.1 4.0.0)) #6 PREEMPT Wed Jul 9 12
> > :36:41 PDT 2008
> 
> [snip]
> 

[snip]

> > Sending DHCP requests ., OK
> > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 149.199.109.235, my address is
> > 172.16.40.12
> > IP-Config: Complete:
> >      device=eth0, addr=172.16.40.12, mask=255.255.255.0,
> > gw=172.16.40.254,
> >      host=172.16.40.12, domain=xilinx.com public.xilinx.com
> > xlnx.xilinx.com public.xsj.xilinx., nis-domain=xil
> > inx.com,
> >      bootserver=149.199.109.235, rootserver=149.199.109.235,
> > rootpath=/tmp
> 
> I don't *think* this causes problems, but your DHCP server is
providing
> NFS configuration information.  Does that override the ramdisk
> configuration?

I removed ip from the command line and it didn't help any.

> 
> > List of all partitions:
> > No filesystem could mount root, tried:  ext2 cramfs msdos vfat romfs
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > unknown-block(1,0)
> > Rebooting in 180 seconds..
> 
> [snip]
> 
> HTH,
> gvb

I added linux,initrd-start=<addr> and linux,initrd-end=<addr> to my dts
file and the kernel now finds the initrd. 

I found these properties in the code, but it doesn't seem right to need
it, I must be still missing something.

Thanks,
John

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