Re: Kernel does not boot on TT030
Quick clarification - stram_pool is only required if the kernel gets
loaded to TT-RAM (no -s option).
Cheers,
Michael
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:30 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Am 29.08.2018 um 01:00 schrieb Finn Thain:
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Stefan Niestegge wrote:
> >
> >> the kernel does not start up and run the D-I from the initrd. A serial
> >> terminal was connected to one TT, but all it received was "ABCDEJK".
> >>
> >
> > If you have CONFIG_EARLYPRINTK=y then you can enable the early console.
> > Try passing the kernel parameter 'earlyprintk'. That should cause kernel
> > messages to be sent to the same device(s) to which "ABCDEJK" was sent.
>
> I have the following options set to direct console messages to the
> serial port:
>
> debug=ser console=tty
>
> 'debug=ser' uses the MFP Modem1 port on TT, the SCC Modem2 port on
> Falcon. Use debug=ser2 if you want to force use of the SCC port on TT.
> Messages appearing there mean the boot process has made it out of early
> startup code which I'd expect for a TT.
>
> No idea about any interactions with earlyprintk, sorry.
>
> Option 'stram_pool=128k' might also be required to reserve ST-RAM for
> use by drivers that can only address 24 bit (not sure if that's a
> problem with the TT video driver).
>
> Once you have console messages on the serial port, the option
> 'initcall_debug' may be useful to pinpoint where the boot hangs. My
> guess would be during probing for optional stuff such as ROM port or
> CT60 expansion network card hardware in atari_platform_init(), unless
> your kernel contains commit 3f90f9ef2dda316d64e420d5d51ba369587ccc55
> (m68k/mm: Adjust VM area to be unmapped by gap size for __iounmap())
> that fixed ioremap/iounmap use on 030. Should be in from 4.17-rc6 on.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
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