On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 18:33:13, Domenico Andreoli wrote:

Hello,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Vaibhav Hiremath [off-list ref] wrote:

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I do maintain wiki page which you should refer for any updates:
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Sitara_Linux_Upstream_Status

In order to get latest and greatest kernel to boot, you can use my repo:
https://github.com/hvaibhav/am335x-linux

do you have any usable defconfig? I've some trouble with the build of
this branch and I'm not sure about the configuration.

quoted

Also, note that, currently there will be very minimal feature-set
supported in the kernel, so not sure how much can be leveraged for
production use-cases.

I need something that boots to userspace, nothing more (but I'm happy
to test) :)

Sorry for delayed response, I went out of station, supposed to come back on 
Monday itself but due to some known reason couldn't make it. I have just 
resumed my work today. Sorry for inconvenience...

Coming back to your question,

Omap2plus_defconfig should work for you, you should get linux prompt with 
ramdisk image (which I use). Just to be more clear, and for your reference I am pasting steps which I use for testing, 

Build Steps:
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 - make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=<toolchain> distclean
 - make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=<toolchain> omap2plus_defconfig
 - Enable option CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB and CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT
 - make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=<toolchain> uImage-dtb.am335x-evm
   (Since I am not using DT aware u-boot)

Use the ramdisk image to boot kernel, since we do not have support for any 
storage devices in the mainline.

U-Boot commands to boot:
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setenv bootcmd 'mmc rescan 0; fatload mmc 0 81000000 uImage; fatload mmc 0 82000000 ramdisk-pm.gz; bootm 81000000'
setenv bootargs 'console=ttyO0,115200n8 mem=128M root=/dev/ram rw initrd=0x82000000,16MB ramdisk_size=65536 earlyprintk=serial'
boot


Hope this will help you to boot the kernel on BeagleBone.

Thanks,
Vaibhav