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Re: flash-kernel and dtb



On 14/06/2014 22:36, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> On Saturday 14 June 2014 14:23:33 you wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 14:42 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>>> On Saturday 14 June 2014 13:35:40 Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>> Your boot command should load and then source the boot.scr which
>>>> flash-kernel has created, it contains the right things and is
>>>> automatically updated when the kernel/initramfs/etc changes.
>>>
>>> Wow, that is a nice solution. Is there somewhere the boot.cmd out of which
>>> mkimage generates the boot.scr ?
>>
>> I don't think it is preserved anywhere. You can extract it with
>>     dd if=/boot/boot.scr bs=64 skip=1 of=/tmp/boot.cmd
> 
> That is very helpful.
> 
> root@bokocube:~# cat /root/boot.cmd 
> 5# boot script for CuBox-i
> 
> setenv device mmc
> setenv partition ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart}
> setenv bootargs 'quiet'
> 
> image_locations='/boot/ /'
> kvers='3.15-rc8-armmp'
> 
> for pathprefix in ${image_locations}
> do
>   load ${device} ${partition} ${loadaddr} ${pathprefix}vmlinuz-${kvers} \
>   && load ${device} ${partition} ${fdt_addr} ${pathprefix}dtb-${kvers} \
>   && load ${device} ${partition} ${ramdiskaddr} 
> ${pathprefix}initrd.img-${kvers} \
>   && echo "Booting Debian ${kvers} from ${device} ${partition}..." \
>   && bootz ${loadaddr} ${ramdiskaddr}:${filesize} ${fdt_addr}
> done
> root@bokocube:~# 
> 
> I try to get the kernel up with manual tweaks in u-boot first:
> 
> CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.2 at 792 MHz
> Reset cause: POR
> Board: MX6-CuBox-i
> DRAM:  2 GiB
> MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0
> In:    serial
> Out:   vga
> Err:   vga
> Net:   FEC
> (Re)start USB...
> USB0:   lowlevel init failed
> USB1:   USB EHCI 1.00
> scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>        scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
>        scanning usb for ethernet devices... 0 Ethernet Device(s) found
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
> CuBox-i U-Boot >  setenv mmcdev 0
> CuBox-i U-Boot > setenv mmcpart 2
> CuBox-i U-Boot > setenv ramdiskaddr 0x11800000
> CuBox-i U-Boot > setenv fdt_addr 0x18000000
> CuBox-i U-Boot > setenv scr_addr 0x19900000
> CuBox-i U-Boot > ext4load mmc 0:2 0x19900000 /boot/boot.scr
> 637 bytes read in 94 ms (5.9 KiB/s)
> CuBox-i U-Boot > source 0x19900000
> ## Executing script at 19900000
> 2857680 bytes read in 248 ms (11 MiB/s)
> 28603 bytes read in 126 ms (221.7 KiB/s)
> 10934444 bytes read in 620 ms (16.8 MiB/s)
> Booting Debian 3.15-rc8-armmp from mmc 0:2...
> Kernel image @ 0x10800000 [ 0x000000 - 0x2b9ad0 ]
> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 18000000
>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x18000000
> EHCI failed to shut down host controller.
>    Loading Ramdisk to 8ecf1000, end 8f75e8ac ... OK
>    Using Device Tree in place at 18000000, end 18009fba
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> 
> but then the boot process is stuck.
> 
> What looks weired is the location the ramdisk is loaded to....
> 
> Thanks,
> Rainer
> 

Tweaking the bootscript do not need to parse it with mkimage also ?
A bootscript is not a standard text file but a mkimage -T script

Regards

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