[Techtalk] AMCC powerPC issue

Wendi Dreesen wdreesen at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 22:35:48 UTC 2009



Have you tried gunziping new_image.img and mounting it on your host  
system to see if it is corrupted?  It may provide a clue to the problem.


On Aug 25, 2009, at 6:00 AM, techtalk-request at linuxchix.org wrote:

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>   1. Problem with AMCC powerPC 440EP (yosemite) (Sridhar Mahadevan)
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> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:20:08 +0530
> From: Sridhar Mahadevan <msridhar87 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Techtalk] Problem with AMCC powerPC 440EP (yosemite)
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
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> Hi,
> I am trying to bring up the AMCC powerPC 440EP (yosemite) eval board  
> using
> the wind river linux 2.0.The kernel version is 2.6.21.
> I compiled kernel for ppc and cross compiled busybox. I tried to  
> load the
> kernel and file system using tftp and I got the following  
> message.The kernel
> exits with kernel panic with signal 11.Am using busybox-1.4.1.
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> Type "run flash_nfs" to mount root filesystem over NFS
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> => printenv
> baudrate=115200
> loads_echo=1
> preboot=echo;echo Type "run flash_nfs" to mount root filesystem over
> NFS;echo
> netdev=eth0
> hostname=yosemite
> nfsargs=setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=${serverip}:$ 
> {rootpath}
> ramargs=setenv bootargs root=/dev/ram rw
> addip=setenv bootargs ${bootargs}
> ip=${ipaddr}:${serverip}:${gatewayip}:${netmask}:${hostname}:$ 
> {netdev}:off
> panic=1
> addtty=setenv bootargs ${bootargs} console=ttyS0,${baudrate}
> flash_nfs=run nfsargs addip addtty;bootm ${kernel_addr}
> flash_self=run ramargs addip addtty;bootm ${kernel_addr} $ 
> {ramdisk_addr}
> net_nfs=tftp 200000 ${bootfile};run nfsargs addip addtty;bootm
> bootfile=/tftpboot/yosemite/uImage
> kernel_addr=fc000000
> ramdisk_addr=fc180000
> load=tftp 100000 /tftpboot/yosemite/u-boot.bin
> update=protect off fff80000 ffffffff;era fff80000 ffffffff;cp.b 100000
> fff80000 80000;setenv filesize;saveenv
> upd=run load;run update
> ethaddr=00:10:ec:01:00:57
> eth1addr=00:10:ec:41:00:57
> bootdelay=5
> bootcmd=run flash_self
> ethact=ppc_4xx_eth0
> kozio=bootm 0xfc320000
> bootfromtftp=tftp 0x200000 uImage; tftp 0x1000000 ramdisk.img; bootm
> 0x200000 0x1000000
> filesize=149516
> fileaddr=200000
> gatewayip=172.30.15.33
> netmask=255.255.255.0
> ipaddr=172.30.15.243
> serverip=172.30.15.48
> rootpath=/home/sridharm/nfs
> bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram rw init=/sbin/linuxrc  
> panic=3
> loglevel=7
> initrd_high=0x00000000
> stdin=serial
> stdout=serial
> stderr=serial
> Environment size: 1396/8187 bytes
> => setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200 rw init=linuxrc'
> => tftp 0x200000 uImage
> ENET Speed is 100 Mbps - FULL duplex connection
> Using ppc_4xx_eth0 device
> TFTP from server 172.30.15.48; our IP address is 172.30.15.243
> Filename 'uImage'.
> Load address: 0x200000
> Loading:  
> #################################################################
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>         ########################################
> done
> Bytes transferred = 1200686 (12522e hex)
> => tftp 0x1000000 new_image.img
> Using ppc_4xx_eth0 device
> TFTP from server 172.30.15.48; our IP address is 172.30.15.243
> Filename 'new_image.img'.
> Load address: 0x1000000
> Loading:  
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> done
> Bytes transferred = 5302796 (50ea0c hex)
> => bootm 0x200000 0x1000000
> ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
>   Image Name:   Linux-2.6.21
>   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>   Data Size:    1200622 Bytes =  1.1 MB
>   Load Address: 00000000
>   Entry Point:  00000000
>   Verifying Checksum ... OK
>   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 01000000 ...
>   Image Name:   fs
>   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
>   Data Size:    5302732 Bytes =  5.1 MB
>   Load Address: 00000000
>   Entry Point:  00000000
>   Verifying Checksum ... OK
>   Loading Ramdisk to 002f1000, end 007ff9cc ... OK
> DEBUG:kernel started
> Linux version 2.6.21 (root at cheuxeri002) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Wind  
> River Linux
> Sourcery G++ 4.1-91)) #9 Fri Aug 21 10:07:07 IST 2009
> AMCC PowerPC 440EP Yosemite Platform
> Zone PFN ranges:
>  DMA             0 ->    65536
>  Normal      65536 ->    65536
> early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
>    0:        0 ->    65536
> Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 65024
> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rw init=linuxrc
> PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Memory: 252032k available (1812k kernel code, 572k data, 144k init, 0k
> highmem)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> Gonna call init
> DEBUG:Going to create init
> DEBUG:entering do_initcalls
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
> usbcore: registered new device driver usb
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
> TCP reno registered
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks  
> like an
> initrd
> Freeing initrd memory: 5178k freed
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing  
> enabled
> serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
> serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 1) is a 16550A
> serial8250: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> serial8250: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 200000K size 1024  
> blocksize
> PPC 4xx OCP EMAC driver, version 3.54
> mal0: initialized, 4 TX channels, 2 RX channels
> zmii0: bridge in RMII mode
> eth0: emac0, MAC 00:10:ec:01:00:57
> eth0: found Generic MII PHY (0x01)
> eth1: emac1, MAC 00:10:ec:41:00:57
> eth1: found Generic MII PHY (0x03)
> usbmon: debugfs is not available
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> TCP cubic registered
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> DEBUG:going to free init memory
> *Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k init
> init has generated signal 11 but has no handler for it
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> Rebooting in 180 seconds..*
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> ======================================================================
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> Am struck with this for more than a week and am a newbie to board  
> bring up.
> Kindly help me.
>
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