2010-10-06 02:17:24 kernel application hanged on BF537 stampkit

Shyam sundar (INDIA)

Message: 94210

Hello world,

I am using the BF537 stamp kit.I am not able to see the kernel application executed.

This what the console displays.

U-Boot 2008.10-svn2396 (ADI-2009R1.1-rc1) (Sep 30 2010 - 18:22:32)

CPU: ADSP bf537-0.3 (Detected Rev: 0.3) (parallel flash boot)

Board: ADI BF537 stamp board

Support: blackfin.uclinux.org/

Clock: VCO: 500 MHz, Core: 500 MHz, System: 125 MHz

RAM: 64 MB

Flash: 4 MB

In: serial

Out: serial

Err: serial

Net: Blackfin EMAC

MAC: 00:E0:22:FE:61:73

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0

bfin>tftpboot 0x1000000 vmlinux

TFTP from server X.X.X.46; our IP address is X.X.X.99

Filename 'vmlinux'.

Load address: 0x1000000

Loading: #################################################################

#################################################################

#########################################################

done

Bytes transferred = 24679375 (17893cf hex)

bfin>boote

Loading phdr 0 to 0x00001000 (1322284 bytes)

Loading phdr 1 to 0x00144000 (0 bytes)

Loading phdr 2 to 0x00156334 (4938900 bytes)

Loading phdr 3 to 0x0060bfc8 (10996 bytes)

Loading phdr 4 to 0x0060eabc (192 bytes)

## Starting application at 0x00173f80 ...

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2010-10-06 02:45:28 Re: kernel application hanged on BF537 stampkit

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 94215

not a bug ... working as designed

do not boot kernel elfs. boot uImages.

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2010-10-06 07:43:55 Re: kernel application hanged on BF537 stampkit

Shyam sundar (INDIA)

Message: 94268

Thanks Mike!! The documentations said that the newer versions of uboot loaders sometimes doesnt support the elf format.

Probably that should have been the problem then !!

I used the uImage.initramfs image, but the application got stuck at

"turn off boot console early_BFuart0"

This was the console display!!

bfin> loady

## Ready for binary (ymodem) download to 0x01000000 at 57600 bps...

CModem - CRC mode, 24120(SOH)/0(STX)/0(CAN) packets, 7 retries

## Total Size = 0x002f18da = 3086554 Bytes

bfin> iminfo 0x1000000

## Checking Image at 01000000 ...

Legacy image found

Image Name: Linux-2.6.28.10-ADI-2009R1.1-svn

Created: 2010-10-06 6:33:24 UTC

Image Type: Blackfin Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)

Data Size: 3086490 Bytes = 2.9 MB

Load Address: 00001000

Entry Point: 00173f80

Verifying Checksum ... OK

bfin> bootm 0x1000000

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 01000000 ...

Image Name: Linux-2.6.28.10-ADI-2009R1.1-svn

Created: 2010-10-06 6:33:24 UTC

Image Type: Blackfin Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)

Data Size: 3086490 Bytes = 2.9 MB

Load Address: 00001000

Entry Point: 00173f80

Verifying Checksum ... OK

Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

Starting Kernel at = 00173f80

Linux version 2.6.28.10-ADI-2009R1.1-svn9124 (tcoe@tcoe-laptop) (gcc version 4.1.2 (ADI svn)) #31 Wed Oct 6 12:03:15 IST 2010

bootconsole [early_shadow0] enabled

bootconsole [early_BFuart0] enabled

early printk enabled on early_BFuart0

Board Memory: 64MB

Kernel Managed Memory: 64MB

Memory map:

fixedcode = 0x00000400-0x00000490

text = 0x00001000-0x000f3e00

rodata = 0x000f3e00-0x00143d2c

bss = 0x00144000-0x00156334

data = 0x00156334-0x00166000

stack = 0x00164000-0x00166000

init = 0x00166000-0x0060f000

available = 0x0060f000-0x03eff000

DMA Zone = 0x03f00000-0x04000000

Hardware Trace Active and Enabled

Boot Mode: 1

Compiled for ADSP-BF537 Rev 0.3

Blackfin Linux support by blackfin.uclinux.org/

Processor Speed: 500 MHz core clock and 125 MHz System Clock

NOMPU: setting up cplb tables

Instruction Cache Enabled for CPU0

Data Cache Enabled for CPU0 (write-back)

Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping off. Total pages: 16001

Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw clkin_hz=25000000 earlyprintk=serial,uart0,57600 console=ttyBF0,57600

Configuring Blackfin Priority Driven Interrupts

PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Memory available: 57736k/65536k RAM, (4772k init code, 971k kernel code, 457k data, 1024k dma, 572k reserved)

Calibrating delay loop... 989.18 BogoMIPS (lpj=494592)

Security Framework initialized

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

Blackfin Scratchpad data SRAM: 4 KB

Blackfin L1 Data A SRAM: 16 KB (15 KB free)

Blackfin L1 Data B SRAM: 16 KB (16 KB free)

Blackfin L1 Instruction SRAM: 48 KB (37 KB free)

net_namespace: 288 bytes

NET: Registered protocol family 16

Blackfin DMA Controller

stamp_init(): registering device resources

NET: Registered protocol family 2

IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)

TCP reno registered

NET: Registered protocol family 1

msgmni has been set to 112

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)

io scheduler cfq registered

Serial: Blackfin serial driver

bfin-uart.1: ttyBF0 at MMIO 0xffc00400 (irq = 18) is a BFIN-UART

bfin-uart.1: ttyBF1 at MMIO 0xffc02000 (irq = 20) is a BFIN-UART

brd: module loaded

PPP generic driver version 2.4.2

bfin_mii_bus: probed

bfin_mac: attached PHY driver [SMSC LAN83C185] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:01, irq=-1, mdc_clk=2500000Hz(mdc_div=24)@sclk=125MHz)

bfin_mac bfin_mac.0: Blackfin on-chip Ethernet MAC driver, Version 1.1

bfin-spi bfin-spi.0: Blackfin on-chip SPI Controller Driver, Version 1.0, regs_base@ffc00500, dma channel@7

rtc-bfin rtc-bfin: rtc core: registered rtc-bfin as rtc0

bfin-wdt: initialized: timeout=20 sec (nowayout=0)

TCP cubic registered

NET: Registered protocol family 17

turn off boot console early_BFuart0

Just small doubt,I hope my understandings are clear.Please let me know if i am wrong!

I was just going through the following documents!!

docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bootloaders:u-boot:uimage

docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bootloaders:u-boot:serial-flash

Suppose I want to run the kernel application from serial flash connected to SSEL1 ,then if i give the following commands

sf probe 1; sf read 0x1000000 0x2000 0x2F189A; bootm 0x1000000

Does it mean that uImage.initramfs (image size=0x2F189A) which is in the address 0x2000 of the SPI flash will be read to SDRAM location 0x1000000 and the bootm command will uncompress the image in the SDRAM at the location as specified in the image info. When I gave the command iminfo 0x1000000,I do get some info about the kernel application image loaded in the location 0x1000000.So the bootm command then has to uncompress the image at 0x1000000 to the location 0x00001000 and kernel application will execute from 00173f80. So i can directly load the kernel application image using a flash programmer routine.

How can i ensure that while uncompressing overlapping doesnt happen?Does the file size of the vmlinux file(elf format of the kernel application image) gives the size of the uncompressed kernel application?

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2010-10-06 08:32:40 Re: kernel application hanged on BF537 stampkit

Shyam sundar (INDIA)

Message: 94269

According to the following document,

docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=linux-kernel:debug:early_printk

When the early printk is enabled on early_BFuart0, console handover has to happen!!

console handover: boot [early_BFuart0] -> real [ttyBF0]

What could have gone wrong?

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2010-10-06 10:21:35 Re: kernel application hanged on BF537 stampkit

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 94278

did you disable CONFIG_SERIAL_BFIN_CONSOLE in your kernel config ? this is really the only way you could get this behavior and once again, this is the correct behavior. if you want a console on the Blackfin UART, you must enable the correct config settings.

pick a high enough address so overlap does not occur.

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2010-10-08 00:40:25 Re: kernel application hanged on BF537 stampkit

Shyam sundar (INDIA)

Message: 94320

Thanks a ton Mike,

I think by mistake,I would have disabled the CONFIG_SERIAL_BFIN_CONSOLE !!

Problem solved !!