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U-Boot Jean-baptiste DURONEA 2 participants 3 messages Jan 17, 2014 1 message not in the archive

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Dear Wolfgang Denk,

I forgot some explanations, sorry about that.

I refer to this problem :
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-July/159055.html

First, I tried to boot linux with initramfs through u-boot, but I had the same problem explained in my first post.

Here is a part of the config file used by my -boot :

/* High Level Configuration Options */
#define CONFIG_ARMV7 /* This is armv7 Cortex-A9 CPU core */
#define CONFIG_MXC
#define CONFIG_MX6DL
#define CONFIG_MX6DL_DDR3
#define CONFIG_MX6DL_SABRESD
#define CONFIG_DDR_32BIT
#define CONFIG_FLASH_HEADER
#define CONFIG_FLASH_HEADER_OFFSET 0x400
#define CONFIG_MX6_CLK32 32768

/* Disable secure boot feature in default, if you want to enable this
* feature, please carefully read related documents, you may needs to
* change u-boot.lds */
#undef CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT

#define CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT

#define CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_INIT
#undef CONFIG_ARCH_MMU /* disable MMU first */ #define CONFIG_L2_OFF /* disable L2 cache first*/

#define CONFIG_MX6_HCLK_FREQ 24000000

#define CONFIG_DISPLAY_CPUINFO
#define CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO

#define CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_VSPRINTF

#define BOARD_LATE_INIT

#define CONFIG_CMDLINE_TAG /* enable passing of ATAGs */
#define CONFIG_SERIAL_TAG
#define CONFIG_REVISION_TAG
#define CONFIG_SETUP_MEMORY_TAGS
#define CONFIG_INITRD_TAG
#define CONFIG_MXC_GPIO

initramfs is loaded in ram at 0x10C00000 by mfgtools, which is the freescales's manufacturing tool.

I don't know which configuration I need to set on u-boot to tell him initramfs is at address 0x10C00000, and consequently it hands on linux.

I am really bloqued on this problem.
Can you give me some hints ?

Tanks a lot !

Regards,

Le 17/01/2014 07:16, Wolfgang Denk a ?crit :

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Dear Jean-baptiste DURONEA,

Quoted 2 lines · In message <[email protected]> you wrote:

We made a custom board based on imx6solo.
I have the same problem !

The same problem as what or who? I cannot even guess...

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I have some trouble booting linux kernel with initramfs. I built linux kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD, so Kbuild generates usr/initramfs_data.cpio which is integrated into the kernel.

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My kernel hangs after the last line, instead of doing "Freeing init
memory: ..." but I don't know if it comes from the same problem or not...

Sorry, but I cannot see anything in your posting which might even remotely be related to U-Boot. This is the U-Boot mailing list - your question is off topic here.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Dear Jean-Baptiste,

Quoted 5 lines · In message <[email protected]> you wrote:

I forgot some explanations, sorry about that.

I refer to this problem :
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-July/159055.html

And there you wrote:

| When I boot Linux kernel with FIT Image, the kernel does not unpacking initramfs.
| ( The root cause is "initrd_start is NULL".)
| 
| The initramfs is built-in with kernel, so I don't specify ramdisk in my
| kernel.its file.

initramfs handling is internal to Linux. This is not a problem with U-Boot.

Check how you build your kernel image and make sure the initramfs image (and a working one) gets processed there.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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I'll try to have linux support so.

Thank you.

Regards,

Le 17/01/2014 12:07, Wolfgang Denk a ?crit :

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Dear Jean-Baptiste,

Quoted 4 lines · In message <[email protected]> you wrote:

I forgot some explanations, sorry about that.

I refer to this problem :
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-July/159055.html

And there you wrote:

| When I boot Linux kernel with FIT Image, the kernel does not unpacking initramfs.
| ( The root cause is "initrd_start is NULL".)
|
| The initramfs is built-in with kernel, so I don't specify ramdisk in my
| kernel.its file.

initramfs handling is internal to Linux. This is not a problem with U-Boot.

Check how you build your kernel image and make sure the initramfs image (and a working one) gets processed there.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk