i am working on BF548 EZKIT LITE, i had done tftp booting in it. Kernel and jffs2 file system loaded successfully and got the root prompt.
But now i need to use SD card for booting, I had made ext2 partition into sd card and copy u-boot.ldr(boot loader) in it, but when try to load this file after inserting SD card into board i had got an error like
tranfering data failed
** ext4fs_devread read error - block
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
search on net but could not find anything , add log for detail which shows SD card is detected.
bfin> mmcinfo
Device: Blackfin SDH
Manufacturer ID: 3
OEM: 5344
Name: SD02G
Tran Speed: 25000000
Rd Block Len: 512
SD version 2.0
High Capacity: No
Capacity: 1.8 GiB
Bus Width: 4-bit
bfin>
bfin> ext2load mmc 0 0x1000000 u-boot.ldr
tranfering data failed
** ext4fs_devread read error - block
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
bfin>
I had tried different sd card also but still got the same problem, Any one have clue about this? Please share.
U-boot version= 2014.07.
Linux kernel = 4.5.4
I am using Buildroot for making board support package.
Thank in advance....
Ah, so your problem is:
bfin> ext2load mmc 0 0x1000000 u-boot.ldr
and this should be:
bfin> ext4load mmc 0:1 0x1000000 u-boot.ldr
as you need to specify both the MMC device (0) and the partition on the device (1 as you made 1 partition on the SD card and formatted that). Just saying 0 causes it to try and read the whole device as where the filesystem is which fails when it runs into the partition table. And you need to use 'ext4load' (or just load, if you have the generic commands enabled) as well since you've got ext3/ext4 most likely and not just ext2.
Related
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ has two SD card controllers.
There is custom controller called sdhost as shown by the device tree node:
/* SDHOST is used to drive the SD card */
&sdhost {
pinctrl-names = "default";
pinctrl-0 = <&sdhost_gpio48>;
status = "okay";
bus-width = <4>;
};
And an SDHCI-compliant controller as shown by the following device tree node:
/* SDHCI is used to control the SDIO for wireless */
&sdhci {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
pinctrl-names = "default";
pinctrl-0 = <&emmc_gpio34>;
status = "okay";
bus-width = <4>;
non-removable;
mmc-pwrseq = <&wifi_pwrseq>;
brcmf: wifi#1 {
reg = <1>;
compatible = "brcm,bcm4329-fmac";
};
};
As referenced by the U-boot comments, U-boot is using SDHOST as the SD card controller and SDHCI as the WiFi controller.
/* SDHOST is used to drive the SD card */
...
/* SDHCI is used to control the SDIO for wireless */
The problem I'm facing is that I'm unable to run this SD card driver (source code here) via U-boot, which uses the Pi's SDHCI controller to interact with SD cards.
The SD card driver runs successfully bare-metal via the Pi's existing bootloader as shown by the output below:
EMMC: GPIO set up
EMMC: reset OK
sd_clk divisor 00000068, shift 00000006
EMMC: Sending command 00000000 arg 00000000
EMMC: Sending command 08020000 arg 000001AA
EMMC: Sending command 37000000 arg 00000000
EMMC: Sending command 29020000 arg 51FF8000
EMMC: CMD_SEND_OP_COND returned VOLTAGE CCS 0000000040F98000
...
However, when I try to run the binary via U-Boot using the go command, the code is stuck during the initialisation phase of the SDHCI controller (exact line in source code here) as shown below:
EMMC: GPIO set up
EMMC: reset OK
sd_clk divisor 00000068, shift 00000006
EMMC: Sending command 00000000 arg 00000000
EMMC: Sending command 08020000 arg 000001AA
ERROR: failed to send EMMC command
My suspicion is that since U-boot has configured the SDHCI controller for Wifi (and not for SD cards), I can no longer use it as an SD card controller. However, I want to use the SDHCI controller as the SD Card controller.
What is the best way to get my SD card binary running via U-boot?
Is the only option to configure/recompile U-boot to use the SDHCI controller as the main SD card controller (and forget about WiFi)?
If so, some pointers on how to go about this would be much appreciated.
Alternatively, is there a U-boot shell command (like some sort of reset command) that give binaries a runtime environment similar to a bare-metal environment that has been un-modified by U-boot?
Edit:
Here is my progress so far. I've figured out how to exclude the custom SDHOST driver from being initialised via two methods:
Modifying the DTS file by replacing status = "okay" with status = "disabled" for the custom SDHOST driver.
Adding CONFIG_MMC_BCM2835=n to U-Boot's configs/rpi_3_b_plus_defconfig file.
When I launch U-boot, and run mmc list, I see only the SDHCI controller, which is great:
U-Boot> mmc list
mmc#7e300000: 0
I know the above is the SDHCI controller because its device registers are mapped to the physical address of 7e300000 as shown in arch/arm/dts/bcm283x.dtsi below:
sdhci: mmc#7e300000 {
compatible = "brcm,bcm2835-sdhci";
reg = <0x7e300000 0x100>;
interrupts = <2 30>;
clocks = <&clocks BCM2835_CLOCK_EMMC>;
status = "disabled";
};
However, as shown in the following boot logs, U-boot is still not happy to use this controller as the SD card controller:
MMC: mmc#7e300000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
** Bad device specification mmc 0 **
Below is the entire boot log:
U-Boot 2023.01-00790-g8c80619653-dirty (Feb 11 2023 - 10:04:49 +1100)
DRAM: 948 MiB
RPI 3 Model B+ (0xa020d3)
Core: 63 devices, 14 uclasses, devicetree: embed
MMC: mmc#7e300000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
** Bad device specification mmc 0 **
In: serial
Out: vidconsole
Err: vidconsole
Net: No ethernet found.
starting USB...
Bus usb#7e980000: USB DWC2
scanning bus usb#7e980000 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
U-Boot> mmc list
mmc#7e300000: 0
My suspicion is that the SDHCI controller is still being treated by U-Boot as a WiFi controller (I can't tell for sure). What are some troubleshooting steps I can take to figure out what is going on?
My solution is to change the following line in the sdhci node of the DT located at arch/arm/dts/bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dts from
pinctrl-0 = <&emmc_gpio34>;
to
pinctrl-0 = <&sdhost_gpio48>;
Then I recompile U-boot and use the resultant U-boot binary as the Pi’s bootloader.
The final and desired result is that:
U-boot can still use the sdhost driver and controller to access the SD card when it is running (which is U-boot’s default preference).
The binary run by U-boot (via the go command) can also manipulate the sdhci controller’s device registers to interact with the SD card.
For additional context around the solution, the sdhost_gpio48 reference above is located in this DTSI file located at arch/arm/dts/bcm283x.dtsi:
sdhost_gpio48: sdhost_gpio48 {
brcm,pins = <48 49 50 51 52 53>;
brcm,function = <BCM2835_FSEL_ALT0>;
};
The pinctrl-0 parameter we have changed refers to “Pin Control” and detailed documentation about this parameter can be found here.
From my understanding, our change specifies the same GPIO pins that are being used for the SDHOST controller for the SDHCI controller, which enables us to use the SDHCI controller as an SD card controller.
I am not sure whether the following situation is normal.
I have the following command to boot to kernel from uboot:
set mtdids nand0=pxa3xx_nand-0
set mtdparts mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:0x600000(boot)ro,0x400000(kernel),-(rootfs)
usb start
fatload usb 0:1 0x201000000 ubifs.img
nand erase.part rootfs; ubi part rootfs; ubi create nand_rootfs
ubi write 0x201000000 nand_rootfs $filesize
fatload usb 0:1 0x206000000 Image;
fatload usb 0:1 0x201000000 dtb.dtb;
set bootargs mem=2G console=ttyS0,115200 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x7f012000 ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0 rootfstype=ubifs rw cpuidle.off=1;
booti 0x206000000 - 0x201000000;
As you can see, since the Image and dtb are not stored internally, I have to plug in a USB to boot my device with this method. To get rid of using USB every time, I modified the cmds as follows:
set mtdparts mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:0x600000(boot)ro,0x3200000(kernel),0x100000(dtb),0x100000(dtb_spare),0x5C80000(rootfs),-(rootfsubi); //I will explain why I made that many partitions
set kernelsize 0x2916808;
set dtbsize 0x1f15;
set ubifsimgsize 0x2cc0ff0;
nand erase.chip;usb start;
fatload usb 0:1 0x210000000 ubifs.img;
ubi part rootfs; ubi create nand_rootfs;
ubi write 0x210000000 nand_rootfs $ubifsimgsize;
nand write 0x210000000 rootfsubi $ubifsimgsize; // will be explained below
fatload usb 0:1 0x206000000 Image;
fatload usb 0:1 0x201000000 dtb.dtb;
nand write 0x206000000 kernel $kernelsize;
nand write 0x201000000 dtb $dtbsize;nand write 0x201000000 dtb_spare $dtbsize;
setenv boot_device 'nand read 0x206000000 kernel $kernelsize;nand read 0x201000000 dtb $dtbsize;set bootargs mem=2G console=ttyS0,115200 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x7f012000 ubi.mtd=3 root=ubi0 rootfstype=ubifs rw cpuidle.off=1;booti 0x206000000 - 0x201000000;'
set boot_cmd run boot_device;
set bootargs mem=2G console=ttyS0,115200 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x7f012000 ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0 rootfstype=ubifs rw cpuidle.off=1;
saveenv
booti 0x206000000 - 0x201000000;
The first time boot using the above command was always successful. My problem happened when I reboot to uboot from kernel.
The "nand write" ubifs img appears because the ubi volume was gone but every time I boot to uboot from kernel. This command was meant to do the ubi device and volume process again without using USB.
Moreover, when the first time booted to the kernel, and reboot to enter uboot again, I discovered with the commands md address, ubi read and nand read that, the memory in the partition changed into UBI something. Please take a look at the picture below
Picture: Auto-changes to ubi something(?)
Basically all partition except the first 0x400000 bytes of kernel and boot behave as above when booted to uboot from kernel.
I did not find anything relevant online. I wonder if this is something normal when using ubi or ubifs to boot to kernel. Please let me know if you have any hints or clues about how to achieve booting to kernel without external USB.
Post the mtd part here if it matters:
uboot>> mtd
device nand0 <pxa3xx_nand-0>, # parts = 6
#: name size offset mask_flags
0: boot 0x00600000 0x00000000 1
1: kernel 0x03200000 0x00600000 0
2: dtb 0x00100000 0x03800000 0
3: dtb_spare 0x00100000 0x03900000 0
4: rootfs 0x05c80000 0x03a00000 0
5: rootfsubi 0x06980000 0x09680000 0
active partition: nand0,0 - (boot) 0x00600000 # 0x00000000
defaults:
mtdids :
mtdparts:
I have compiled u-boot from u-boot-2013.01.y branch for versatilebp board (arm), and I need fatload command that is not present in this configuation.
I'm running u-boot under qemu
DRAM: 128 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: SMC91111-0
Warning: SMC91111-0 using MAC address from net device
VersatilePB # fat
Unknown command 'fat' - try 'help'
VersatilePB # help
? - alias for 'help'
base - print or set address offset
bdinfo - print Board Info structure
bootm - boot application image from memory
bootp - boot image via network using BOOTP/TFTP protocol
cmp - memory compare
cp - memory copy
crc32 - checksum calculation
dhcp - boot image via network using DHCP/TFTP protocol
env - environment handling commands
erase - erase FLASH memory
flinfo - print FLASH memory information
go - start application at address 'addr'
help - print command description/usage
iminfo - print header information for application image
loop - infinite loop on address range
md - memory display
mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing address)
mtest - simple RAM read/write test
mw - memory write (fill)
nm - memory modify (constant address)
ping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network host
printenv- print environment variables
protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
setenv - set environment variables
tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
version - print monitor, compiler and linker version
VersatilePB #
I need fatload to load file containing image of fat filesystem containing kernel of freebsd. Can I somehow change compile config for that board to compile u-boot with fatload command? Or it's just not possible/not supported for that board?
Having done more or less exactly this for a Versatile AB, it's most certainly possible. The simplest way is to find where that board's command set is defined, and hack in the commands you want by defining the relevant CONFIG_CMD_* symbols. In this case, that place is include/configs/versatile.h.
Looking at my checkout of 2015.07, I seem to have added, among others (I think I was trying to convince the MMC to work at the time), these lines:
#define CONFIG_CMD_FAT
#define CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION 1
I bought an IP camera on which is installed proprietary software (no HTTP server).
This prevents me to integrate it into my home network.
I want to replace the software (ELF closed source) by the motion package I already use and add some features.
I have no particular system competence and it's been over a week since I travel the net to learn but I can not get out.
I have access to the U-boot console (USB-TTL adapter) and telnet (root).
The webcam has a SD card reader that I could use if I need space.
I started by making a backup of the three partitions (with dd).
I unzipped the file mtdblock2 (binwalk -e). Which generates a classical Linux tree with links to Busybox, some binary system and proprietary software.
I tried to unzip mtdblock1 which generates zImage.
The decompression zImage generates two directories and one file (console).
Yet I need the kernel modules that are in it. What to do?
I also want to get the kernel compilation settings, is this possible?
I unpacked the firmware available on the manufacturer's website.
It contains only updating the ELF, one .so file and some Bash scripts.
At first I thought the three partitions directly migrate to Qemu.
But if I understand this is not possible because the memory addresses are hard-coded into the kernel.
I understand good?
So I think I have one solution: build a new kernel and rebuild a rootfs from scratch.
Is this only solution?
I started playing with Buildroot but I can not find the configuration file for board based on Hisilicon Hi3518.
I looked bad or is it useless?
For my first test I used board/qemu/arm-versatile. This is the right choice?
This will not prevent me from migrating to the physical machine?
For testing, if I managed to rebuild a kernel and rootfs I would install these partitions on the SD not to break anything.
For this, it is "sufficient" to modify kernel parameters (in bootargs variable) is that right?
So I don't need to rebuild a U-boat partition for my device?
In short, you guessed I ask myself a lot of questions (yet others but "one" thing at a time).
I need advice about whether I take the right road.
Please, if I am talking nonsense feel free to correct me.
If you have ideas or subjects of reflection I'm interested.
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 218.72
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 5TEJ
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x926
CPU revision : 5
Hardware : hi3518
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00100000 00010000 "boot"
mtd1: 00300000 00010000 "kernel"
mtd2: 00c00000 00010000 "rootfs"
# binwalk mtdblock0
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
122044 0x1DCBC CRC32 polynomial table, little endian
# binwalk mtdblock1
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 0x0 uImage header, header size: 64 bytes, header CRC: 0x853F419E, created: 2014-07-22 02:45:04, image size: 2890840 bytes, Data Address: 0x80008000, Entry Point: 0x80008000, data CRC: 0xB24E77CA, OS: Linux, CPU: ARM, image type: OS Kernel Image, compression type: none, image name: "Linux-3.0.8"
22608 0x5850 gzip compressed data, maximum compression, from Unix, NULL date:
# binwalk zImage
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
113732 0x1BC44 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC), file name: "dev", file name length: "0x00000004", file size: "0x00000000"
113848 0x1BCB8 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC), file name: "dev/console", file name length: "0x0000000C", file size: "0x00000000"
113972 0x1BD34 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC), file name: "root", file name length: "0x00000005", file size: "0x00000000"
114088 0x1BDA8 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC), file name: "TRAILER!!!", file name length: "0x0000000B", file size: "0x00000000"
1903753 0x1D0C89 Certificate in DER format (x509 v3), header length: 4, sequence length: 1284
4188800 0x3FEA80 Linux kernel version "3.0.8 (cwen#ubuntu) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Hisilicon_v100(gcc4.4-290+uclibc_0.9.32.1+eabi+linuxpthread)) ) #1 Tue Jul 22 10:45:00 H"
4403540 0x433154 CRC32 polynomial table, little endian
5053435 0x4D1BFB Unix path: /mtd/devices/hisfc350/hisfc350_spi_gd25qxxx.c
5054731 0x4D210B Unix path: /mtd/devices/hisfc350/hisfc350.c
5058939 0x4D317B Unix path: /net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
5059323 0x4D32FB Unix path: /net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00config.c
5060683 0x4D384B Unix path: /net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
5060851 0x4D38F3 Unix path: /net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h
5061171 0x4D3A33 Unix path: /net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
5081107 0x4D8813 Unix path: /S70/S75/505V/F505/F707/F717/P8
5102399 0x4DDB3F Unix path: /mmc/host/himciv100/himci.c
5141264 0x4E7310 Neighborly text, "NeighborSolicits/ipv6/inet6_hashtables.c"
5141284 0x4E7324 Neighborly text, "NeighborAdvertisementses.c"
# binwalk mtdblock2
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 0x0 JFFS2 filesystem, little endian
722980 0xB0824 JFFS2 filesystem, little endian
732282 0xB2C7A Zlib compressed data, compressed
737031 0xB3F07 Zlib compressed data, compressed
738287 0xB43EF Zlib compressed data, compressed
.... most other lines in the same genre
IP Camera QQZM N5063
http://www.zmvideo.com/product/detail.php?id=60
Firmware
http://bbs.zmmcu.com/forum.php?mod=attachment&aid=MzU2fDBiY2M4NDdjfDE0MTkxMTEzODl8MzQ4fDIwMzc%3D
First of all, you do not want to replace U-Boot as this may render your device unbootable. On the U-Boot console, check if you can boot from the SD card mmc rescan 0; fatload mmc 0 ${loadaddr} uImage or from the network dhcp ${loadaddr} ${serverip}:uImage. You'll need to look for documentation for these commands to get more help.
But perhaps you don't even need to replace the kernel. You already know it's a 3.0.8 kernel, so you can build a userspace for this kernel version. And any proprietary modules that are used by it can be lifted from the jffs2 filesystem. On your telnet session, do lsmod to find out which modules are loaded. You can mount an SD card and copy them to it. The modules are located in /lib/modules/3.0.8.
So you probably don't even need to build a kernel in buildroot, only the rootfs. First, check in the telnet session which filesystems are supported: cat /proc/filesystems. Then choose the appropriate filesystem in the buildroot configuration. For the target architecture, choose arm926t. And select the 3.0 kernel headers in the toolchain configuration, or choose the Arago ARMv5 2011.09 external toolchain (it has old kernel headers).
As remarked by artless noise, you don't need to test it in qemu, since the SD card is safe.
I've been trying to build and boot OpenEmbedded-Core on the evaluation kit for Freescale's ARM i.MX28, using the Freescale ARM layer for OpenEmbedded-Core. Unfortunately, I can't find a basic "Getting Started" guide (though there is a Yocto getting-started guide). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to "get started", to the point of successfully booting to a basic command prompt on the board's debug serial port.
Here is what I've been able to piece together, and as far as I've managed to get so far.
Fetch sources
mkdir -p oe-core/freescale-arm
cd oe-core/freescale-arm
git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core oe-core
git clone git://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm.git
cd oe-core
git clone git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
git clone git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake bitbake
Set up environment
. ./oe-init-build-env
That puts us in a new sub-directory build and sets certain environment variables.
Edit configuration
Edit the conf/bblayers.conf and local.conf files:
conf/bblayers.conf should have the meta-fls-arm and meta-oe layers added for BBLAYERS. E.g.:
BBLAYERS ?= " \
/home/craigm/oe-core/freescale-arm/oe-core/meta \
/home/craigm/oe-core/freescale-arm/oe-core/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
${TOPDIR}/../../meta-fsl-arm \
"
In conf/local.conf, I set:
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"
MACHINE = "imx28evk"
Build
bitbake core-image-minimal
I ran this build overnight, and it has completed successfully for me. Output files were in ~/oe-core/freescale-arm/oe-core/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images.
There are two boot options that I'd like to try, as described below. Boot from SD card is simpler, but takes quite a long time (~30 min) to write the image to the SD card. Booting from TFTP + NFS is faster, but requires more set-up.
Boot from SD Card
Write image to SD card:
sudo dd if=tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/core-image-minimal-imx28evk.sdcard of=/dev/sdc
It took something like 30 minutes (3.5 GB file). Then I put it in the board's SD card slot 0, and powered-up. It got as far as loading the kernel, then stopped:
U-Boot 2012.04.01-00059-g4e6e824 (Aug 23 2012 - 18:08:54)
Freescale i.MX28 family at 454 MHz
BOOT: SSP SD/MMC #0, 3V3
DRAM: 128 MiB
MMC: MXS MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: FEC0, FEC1
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
reading boot.scr
** Unable to read "boot.scr" from mmc 0:2 **
reading uImage
2598200 bytes read
Booting from mmc ...
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 42000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.35.3-11.09.01+yocto-20
Created: 2012-08-23 7:53:40 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2598136 Bytes = 2.5 MiB
Load Address: 40008000
Entry Point: 40008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
Boot from TFTP + NFS
First, I tried to write U-Boot onto an SD card:
sudo dd if=tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/u-boot-imx28evk.mxsboot-sdcard of=/dev/sdc
Then I put it in the board's SD card slot 0, and powered-up. But all I got in the debug serial port was:
0x8020a01d
So, I decided to use Freescale's distribution of U-Boot for i.MX28 (from their LTIB distribution) onto an SD card. I set suitable U-Boot parameters for NFS booting with parameters from DHCP.
setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0,115200n8
setenv bootargs_nfs setenv bootargs ${bootargs} root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=,v3,tcp fec_mac=${ethaddr}
saveenv
I connected to a DD-WRT router with the following DNSmasq settings:
dhcp-boot=,,192.168.250.106
dhcp-option=17,"192.168.250.106:/home/craigm/rootfs"
On my host PC, I set up a TFTP server to serve the uImage file from ~/oe-core/freescale-arm/oe-core/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/.
I also set up a root NFS server to serve the root file system. I edited /etc/exports to serve /home/craigm/rootfs. I extracted the root file system:
bitbake meta-ide-support
rm -Rf ~/rootfs
runqemu-extract-sdk tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/core-image-minimal-imx28evk.tar.bz2 ~/rootfs
Then I put the U-Boot SD card in the board's SD card slot 0, and powered-up. It got as far as this, then stopped:
...
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
can: controller area network core (rev 20090105 abi 8)
NET: Registered protocol family 29
can: raw protocol (rev 20090105)
mxs-rtc mxs-rtc.0: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:03:33 UTC (213)
eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:00, irq=-1)
eth1: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:01, irq=-1)
Sending DHCP requests .
PHY: 0:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full
., OK
IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 192.168.250.106, my address is 192.168.250.142
IP-Config: Complete:
device=eth0, addr=192.168.250.142, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.250.1,
host=192.168.250.142, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
bootserver=192.168.250.106, rootserver=192.168.250.106, rootpath=/home/craigm/rootfs
Looking up port of RPC 100003/3 on 192.168.250.106
Looking up port of RPC 100005/3 on 192.168.250.106
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:15.
Freeing init memory: 160K
I'm not sure if it's running without a serial console, or some other problem. I can ping it on 192.168.250.142, but I can't Telnet or SSH to it.
Questions
Is there any sort of "getting started" guide for OpenEmbedded-Core on Freescale's i.MX28?
Is the Freescale ARM layer really intended for use with OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto, or what? I don't really understand how those projects relate.
Has anyone else had success booting a minimal image of OpenEmbedded-Core on Freescale's i.MX28? If so, how did your procedure differ from mine?
I'm not sure at this stage whether the problem is just a non-functional serial console, or some other sort of issue. It's hard to diagnose these problems that prevent even getting a basic system running. Any pointers on how to diagnose at this point?
Why would the U-Boot be broken so it can't even boot?
From the boot message it looks like U-boot is working fine. U-boot is not broken.
The following boot message
2598200 bytes read
Booting from mmc ...
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 42000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.35.3-11.09.01+yocto-20
Created: 2012-08-23 7:53:40 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2598136 Bytes = 2.5 MiB
Load Address: 40008000
Entry Point: 40008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
By the above log u-boot has done its job.
"Booting the kernel" is the point where bootloader given the control to the kernel.
I guess the problem might be in kernel image or in memory.
To eliminate the problem of memory, try to check the manual and try to read and write in the RAM using the board's reference manual.
From the boot log RAM looks like has no problem. It has been initialized.
DRAM: 128 MiB
Check if the following message is not causing any problem.
* Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
Check if all the devices have been initialized and nothing is skipped after the bad crc warning.