[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-Users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 99

ramon rebersak ramon.rebersak at gmail.com
Thu May 15 00:07:39 CEST 2008


Problem with ibm ppc 405 processor.
Pretty confused thing that this is hard to patch to work with ibm ppc 405!!!

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:54 PM, <
u-boot-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

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>   1. Re: build u-boot error: No rule to make target    `.depend',
>      needed by `_depend'. (Wolfgang Denk)
>   2. Re: [PATCH 2/2] Added support for Aztek Networks  cta5000s
>      telecom board. (Wolfgang Denk)
>   3. Re: [PATCH] MPC85xx: Change traps.c to not reference
>      non-addressable memory (Kim Phillips)
>   4. Re: [PATCH] MPC85xx: Change traps.c to not reference
>      non-addressable memory (Becky Bruce)
>   5. Re: Loading a kernel on MX31ADS using U-boot (Fabio Estevam)
>   6. A simple howto boot sequoia (ARCH=powerpc) using  flattened
>      device tree (FDT) (Niklaus Giger)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:49:26 +0200
> From: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] build u-boot error: No rule to make target
>        `.depend', needed by `_depend'.
> To: "Steven Woody" <narkewoody at gmail.com>
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <20080514184926.63F59248C8 at gemini.denx.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Steven,
>
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>
> Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
>
> A: Top-posting.
>
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
>
> And you not only top-post, you also full-quote.
>
> You are ignoring Netiquette more or less completely, are you aware of
> this?
>
> I think you should read http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
> really carefully.
>
>
> In message <ed4892840805141049v3f7b2828w6d5ee74cf1923e09 at mail.gmail.com>
> you wrote:
> >
> > 1.2.0 is come frome eldk-4.1 iso file.  Downloading independent u-boot
> > seems require `git' tool which I get problem with because my office
> > network gets many limits.  Is there a http way to download u-boot?
>
> If you bothered to read the documentation or tyhe U-Boot web pages you
> should have seen the links to the FTP site, and you should have read
> about the snapshot feature of git.
>
> Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/SourceCode
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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> I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but  I  can't
> prove it.
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>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:54:34 +0200
> From: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 2/2] Added support for Aztek
>        Networks        cta5000s telecom board.
> To: Jim Black <jblack547 at gmail.com>
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net, Jim Black
>        <jblack at azteknetworks.com>
> Message-ID: <20080514185434.244B9248C8 at gemini.denx.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> In message <1210781443-6819-3-git-send-email-jblack at azteknetworks.com> you
> wrote:
> > ---
> >  board/cta5000s/Makefile    |   50 +++
> >  board/cta5000s/config.mk   |   30 ++
> >  board/cta5000s/cta5000s.c  |  575 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/configs/cta5000s.h |  723
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 1378 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 board/cta5000s/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 board/cta5000s/config.mk
> >  create mode 100644 board/cta5000s/cta5000s.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/configs/cta5000s.h
>
> There is trailing white space in some of the files.
>
> Please use TABs for indentation instead of spaces (Not only at the
> beginning of the lines).
>
> > +/* See include/configs/cta5000s.h for CFG_* settings
> > + * All values in the following tables taken from
> > + * chapter 6 of the cta Programmer's Guide
> > + */
> ...
> > +/* Compact Flash Control Registers
> > + */
> ...
> > +/* Compact Flash IO memory
> > + */
>
> These comments, and many others, are not in the requested format for
> multiline comments.
>
> And I dare to ask if this:
>
> > +/* FPGA memory
> > + */
>
> really requires a multiline comment?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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> us is right.
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>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:57:32 -0500
> From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] MPC85xx: Change traps.c to not
>        reference non-addressable memory
> To: becky.bruce at freescale.com
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <20080514135732.a12d2b13.kim.phillips at freescale.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:10:04 -0500
> becky.bruce at freescale.com wrote:
>
> > From: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>
> >
> > Currently, END_OF_RAM is used by the trap code to determine if
> > we should attempt to access the stack pointer or not. However,
> > on systems with a lot of RAM, only a subset of the RAM is
> > guaranteed to be mapped in and accessible.  Change END_OF_RAM
> > to use get_effective_memsize() instead of using the raw ram
> > size out of the bd.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>
> > ---
>
> what, no love for 4xx, 83xx, and 74xx_7xx?
>
> can also be made a single patch for WD to apply directly.
>
> Kim
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:31:43 -0500
> From: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] MPC85xx: Change traps.c to not
>        reference       non-addressable memory
> To: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <7D0431BD-E54C-42C2-AB52-EDDEFDF715DA at freescale.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>
> On May 14, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:10:04 -0500
> > becky.bruce at freescale.com wrote:
> >
> >> From: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>
> >>
> >> Currently, END_OF_RAM is used by the trap code to determine if
> >> we should attempt to access the stack pointer or not. However,
> >> on systems with a lot of RAM, only a subset of the RAM is
> >> guaranteed to be mapped in and accessible.  Change END_OF_RAM
> >> to use get_effective_memsize() instead of using the raw ram
> >> size out of the bd.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>
> >> ---
> >
> > what, no love for 4xx, 83xx, and 74xx_7xx?
>
> The other platforms currently set a hard limit that should still be
> valid - I just changed the ones that were reading memsize directly
> out of the bd.
>
> >
> > can also be made a single patch for WD to apply directly.
> >
>
> Sure, I just split it up in case there was some reason we shouldn't
> do it for one of them.
>
> -B
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:53:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabioestevam at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Loading a kernel on MX31ADS using U-boot
> To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>, Jens Gehrlein
>        <sew_s at tqs.de>
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <209131.47056.qm at web51011.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> Have you tried to pass the "jtag=on" option into the kernel command line?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabio Estevam
>
> --- On Wed, 5/14/08, Jens Gehrlein <sew_s at tqs.de> wrote:
>
> > From: Jens Gehrlein <sew_s at tqs.de>
> > Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Loading a kernel on MX31ADS using U-boot
> > To: "Guennadi Liakhovetski" <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de>
> > Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 4:08 AM
> > Hi Guennadi,
> >
> > Guennadi Liakhovetski schrieb:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Apart from that, verify that your console=
> > > command line parameter is correct, your machine ID
> > matches, and that you
> > > don't have a jtag debugger like bdi2000 connected
> > when you're trying to
> > > boot.
> >
> > I have the same problem on our board: I don't see the
> > console outputs if
> > the BDI2000 cable is connected to the target, although the
> > BDI is in
> > mode "reset run". Do have an idea why?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Jens
> >
> >
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:54:16 +0200
> From: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger at member.fsf.org>
> Subject: [U-Boot-Users] A simple howto boot sequoia (ARCH=powerpc)
>        using   flattened device tree (FDT)
> To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <200805142254.16731.niklaus.giger at member.fsf.org>
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>
> Hi
>
> It took me a evening to put everything together. Therefore I send this mail
> hoping it may help somebody else. Hopefully some of the content will find
> its way into the DULG/FAQ, may as point 14.3.30. "Booting using flattened
> device tree (FDT)"
>
> First one needs a recent U-boot with FDT support compiled into, e.g
> 1.3.2-rc3-g772003e4-dirty (Apr 11 2008 - 15:56:0 for the sequoia board.
>
> Secone one needs a recent Linux kernel made using "ARCH=powerpc", e.g. from
> 2.6.25-00002-ga9bf9f0 from  git://www.denx.de/git/linux-2.6-denx.git.
>
> Third one needs a recent dtc (Device Tree Compiler). The following commands
> $ git clone http://www.jdl.com/software/dtc.git
> $ cd dtc && make && sudo cp dtc /usr/local/bin
> should do the job.
>
> Now you are ready to compile the device tree blob. I used the commands
> given in
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxFDTBlob
> dtc -b 0 -V 17 -R 4 -S 0x3000 -I dts -O dtb -f
> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sequoia.dts \
> > /tftpboot/sequoia/sequoia.dtb
>
> Now power up your sequoia board and execute the following commands to start
> a
> Linux kernel on a NFS root device. The following commands did the job for
> me:
>
> > Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> > => tftp  200000 /tftpboot/sequoia/uImage
> > Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete.. done
> > ENET Speed is 100 Mbps - FULL duplex connection (EMAC0)
> > Using ppc_4xx_eth0 device
> > TFTP from server 172.25.1.3; our IP address is 172.25.1.88
> > Filename '/tftpboot/sequoia/uImage'.
> > Load address: 0x200000
> > Loading:
> #################################################################
> >          ######################
> > done
> > Bytes transferred = 1277067 (137c8b hex)
> > => tftp 1000000 /tftpboot/sequoia/sequoia.dtb
> > ENET Speed is 100 Mbps - FULL duplex connection (EMAC0)
> > Using ppc_4xx_eth0 device
> > TFTP from server 172.25.1.3; our IP address is 172.25.1.88
> > Filename '/tftpboot/sequoia/sequoia.dtb'.
> > Load address: 0x1000000
> > Loading: #
> > done
> > Bytes transferred = 12288 (3000 hex)
> > => run nfsargs addip addtty
> > => printenv bootargs
> > bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=172.25.1.3:/opt/eldk/ppc_4xxFP
> > ip=172.25.1.88:172.25.1.3:::sequoia:eth0:off panic=1
> console=ttyS0,115200
> > => fdt addr 1000000
> > => fdt chosen
> > => fdt list
> <...>
> > => fdt print
> <...>
> > => bootm 200000 - 1000000
> > ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
> >    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.25-00002-ga9bf9f0
> >    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> >    Data Size:    1277003 Bytes =  1.2 MB
> >    Load Address: 00000000
> >    Entry Point:  00000000
> >    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> >    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> >    Booting using the fdt at 0x1000000
> >    Loading Device Tree to 007fc000, end 007fefff ... OK
> > Using Sequoia machine description
> <...>
>
> Thats it. Now you should boot into your shiny new Linux kernel. Attached is
> a gzipped output of my startup (for the curious).
>
> Once my kernel started I used the following commands to update my u-boot
> environment:
> > setenv ftd_get 'tftp 200000 ${bootfile};tftp 1000000
> sequoia/sequoia.dtb;fdt addr 1000000;'
> > setenv net_nfs 'run ftd_get nfsargs addip addtty; fdt chosen;bootm 200000
> - 1000000'
> > saveenv
>
> Best regards
>
> Niklaus
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