Re: Walnut boot problem solved

Hi Jacky,

in message <009a01c38bb6$ceb84f40$2803050a@JackyLam> you wrote:

    I have figured out why my kernel hanged while booting on Walnut
platform. It is because the structure of board_info is different between
u-boot-0.4.8 and linuxppc-2.4-devel. After syncing the structure, I can boot

Does the fact that this is a FAQ tell you something?

up to where the kernel tries to mount the filesystem. Attached is a patch
for the fix.

This patch is not really useful. Instead of redefining the  structure
yourself you should simply #include <asm/ppcboot.h>.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Denk" <redacted>
To: "Jacky Lam" <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: Walnut boot problem solved

Hi Jacky,

in message <009a01c38bb6$ceb84f40$2803050a@JackyLam> you wrote:

quoted

    I have figured out why my kernel hanged while booting on Walnut
platform. It is because the structure of board_info is different between
u-boot-0.4.8 and linuxppc-2.4-devel. After syncing the structure, I can

boot

Does the fact that this is a FAQ tell you something?

    No...just my blind guess while tracing the code.

quoted

up to where the kernel tries to mount the filesystem. Attached is a

patch

quoted

for the fix.

This patch is not really useful. Instead of redefining the  structure
yourself you should simply #include <asm/ppcboot.h>.

    Thanks. (Will you change it in next release?)

Regards,
Jacky


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