Hi Rob,
I am sorry that it seems I gave you wrong information.
It turned out that the config I used was not versatile_defconfig.
I have tried to reproduce with versatile_defconfig and found that IO_SPACE_LIMIT modification has no effect, ie. it cannot mount root=/dev/sdb even if IO_SPACE_LIMIT is 0xffffffff. I suppose it misses the driver to read /dev/sdb.
Actual config I used derived from buildroot tool's board/qemu/arm-versatile/linux-3.3.config. ( It works fine for linux-3.3 )
I attached my .config.
As for this config, #define IO_SPACE_LIMIT ((resource_size_t)0xffffffff) works for linux-3.4 to mount /dev/sdb as rootfs.
The command line I used was as follows,
$ sudo qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel ~/linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -hda output/images/rootfs.ext2 -append "console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/sda ip=192.168.7.3::192.168.7.1:255.255.255.0"
Best Regards,
Takuo Koguchi
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Hi Rob,
Thank you for your attention.
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What config are you using, and what is your kernel command line?
I used versatile_defconfig.
And I invoked qemu as follows,
$ sudo qemu-system-arm -machine versatilepb -kernel ~/linux/arch/arm/boot/zImage -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -hda output/images/rootfs.ext2 -append "console=ttyAMA0 root=0x0800 ip=192.168.7.3::192.168.7.1:255.255.255.0 raid=noautodetect"
The result is the same even if root=/dev/sda.
currently __io(a) is defined in arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
#define __io(a) __typesafe_io((a) & IO_SPACE_LIMIT)
...
As CONFIG_PCI is defined in the config, IO_SPACE_LIMIT is defined as 0xffff and failed to boot.
The kernel can mount rootfs when I defined IO_SPACE_LIMIT as follows,
#define IO_SPACE_LIMIT ((resource_size_t)0xffffffff)
It may be related only to qemu and not to real versatile board.
Takuo Koguchi
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Adding linux-arm-kernel...
On 05/28/2012 09:22 AM, takuo.koguchi.sw at hitachi.com wrote:
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Hi,
I found linux-3.4 kernel fails to mount the rootfs on
"qemu-system-arm -M versatile."
Git bisect shows commit c334bc1 cause this first.
So I tried to revert it by putting
arch/arm/mach-versatile/include/mach/io.h and adding select
NEED_MACH_IO_H in the section of ARCH_VERSATILE in arch/arm/Kconfig,
then the kernel can mount the rootfs.
Can someone confirm and fix this?
What config are you using, and what is your kernel command line?
Rob
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Takuo Koguchi
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