RFC ARM: Kirkwood: Synology DT files

Quoted 124 lines · Ben Peddell

Quoted 73 lines · Andrew Lunn

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Quoted 8 lines · Russell King - ARM Linux

Quoted 4 lines · Ben Peddell

It appears the initrd address in the devicetree structure (which is filled in from what is passed by the bootloader when CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT is set) is processed _after_ the address in the initrd= kernel parameter is processed.

That's wrong. Kernel parameters should always override what's passed by boot loaders etc.

In that case, what I saw was a bug - note that this only occurs when DeviceTree is enabled:

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        |  \/  | __ _ _ ____   _____| | |
        | |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |
        | |  | | (_| | |   \ V /  __/ | |
        |_|  |_|\__,_|_|    \_/ \___|_|_|
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| | | |   | __ )  ___   ___ | |_
| | | |___|  _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_
 \___/    |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|  ** LOADER **

** MARVELL BOARD: Synology Disk Station LE

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jul 6 2010 - 19:26:08) Marvell version: 3.4.4

U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0 BSS: -> 0068B43C

Soc: 88F6281 A1 (DDR2)
CPU running @ 1200Mhz L2 running @ 480Mhz SysClock = 400Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz

DRAM CAS Latency = 6 tRP = 6 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6
DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000 size 128MB
DRAM Total size 128MB 16bit width [4096kB at f8000000] Flash: 4 MB Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage. Mem malloc Initialization (8M - 7M): Done Using default environment

CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)

Streaming disabled
Write allocate disabled

Module 1 is AUDIO

USB 0: host mode

Synology Model: DS211j
Fan Status: Good

Net:   egiga0 [PRIME]
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

Marvell>> setenv ipaddr 192.168.200.62
Marvell>> setenv serverip 192.168.200.16
Marvell>> tftp 0x01000000 uImage-3.13-rc7-ds211j-git-fdt
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.200.16; our IP address is 192.168.200.62 Filename 'uImage-3.13-rc7-ds211j-git-fdt'.
Load address: 0x1000000
Loading: #################################################################

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So here you load the kernel into RAM at 0x0100 0000.

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Bytes transferred = 1954736 (1dd3b0 hex)
Marvell>> setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 ip=off initrd=0x00800040,0x0013FFC0 root=/dev/md0 rw syno_hw_version=DS211j ihd_num=2 netif_num=1 earlyprintk

I don't see you loading the initrd into RAM at 0x0080 0000.

See below

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Marvell>> bootm 0x01000000 0xf8280000

And here you tell it the initrd is at 0xf8280000.

This is because I am using the initrd in flash.

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## Booting image at 01000000 ...
Bad Magic Number
Marvell>> tftp 0x01000000 uImage-3.13-rc7-ds211j-git-fdt
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.200.16; our IP address is 192.168.200.62 Filename 'uImage-3.13-rc7-ds211j-git-fdt'.
Load address: 0x1000000
Loading: #################################################################

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done
Bytes transferred = 1954800 (1dd3f0 hex) Marvell>> bootm 0x01000000 0xf8280000 ## Booting image at 01000000 ...

   Image Name:   linux-3.13-rc7-ds211j+
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    1954736 Bytes =  1.9 MB

Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK

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OK
## Loading Ramdisk Image at f8280000 ...

   Image Name:   altair-boot
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (unknown compression)
   Data Size:    1022268 Bytes = 998.3 kB

Load Address: 00800000
Entry Point: 00800000
Verifying Checksum ... OK

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Here the bootloader copies the initrd to 0x00800040, yet passes 0xf8280040 to the kernel.

But does it pass 0xf8280040 because you used:

bootm 0x01000000 0xf8280000

What happens if you use

bootm 0x01000000 0x00800000