[U-Boot] OMAP5912 -- Status? -- Identified as ARM926EJS start.S problem

[Igor Grinberg]

On 05/19/11 11:12, James Harris wrote:

> Hi Igor,
>
> Thanks for your prompt response.
> I've made similar modifications to the omap5912osk over the past number of days with no success...

:(

> The problem appears deeper than just providing these definitions, which as you say, requires actual hardware to test with :)

Exactly, I had to make it compile so I can compile test some other patch.
So I took some values from another board with the same SoC that looked sane to me.
And put there a "FIXME" comment...

> I've gone back to 2010.09 release and it now works very nicely!
>
> I chose that version as it is just prior to the relocation changes applied in the arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S file:
> 2010-09-19 Heiko Schocher ARM: implement relocation for ARM926
>
> That change would certainly cause out-of-box compilation failures, however I am not sure whether it was that change or possibly the following change:
> 2010-10-13 Albert Aribaud arm: implement ELF relocations
> that causes the runtime failure...

Added Heiko and Albert to cc.

> I may investigate further, however, at this stage I can "move on" using the 2010.09 release.
>
> As an aside: Using U-Boot 2010.09 also resolves a problem I was having with u-boot V1.1.1:
> The V2.6.32 linux kernel could not be booted when mem=32M was passed using u-boot V1.1.1
> However when I tried earlier today, through pure desperation, passing mem=16M it did boot.
> Now under u-boot 2010.09 the Linux kernel boots just fine with mem=32M
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Grinberg [mailto:grinberg at compulab.co.il] 
> Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2011 5:09 PM
> To: James Harris
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; rishi at ti.com
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] OMAP5912 -- Status?
>
> Hi James,
>
> On 05/19/11 10:07, James Harris wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Over the past few days I've been trying to get u-boot 2011.03 for the 
>> omap5912osk working.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Support for the target appears to have stagnated...
>>
>>  
>>
>> "Out of the box" the omap5912osk (and omap1610inn) target fails to 
>> compile due to the following missing symbols:
>>
>> CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE
>>
>> CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR
> I've send a patch [1] which hopefully fixes omap1610inn and omap1610h2.
> I can't test is as I don't have this hardware.
> It is currently waiting for Sandeep's approval.
>
> [1]
> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg52157.html
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Igor.
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Igor.