On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:53:03PM +0000, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

In message [off-list ref] you wrote:

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The weird problem with u-boot ( not booting If I set bootargs manually )
and the kernel crash are both solved. It was a compiler issue. I used a
toolchain I used to build binaries for a "normal" mac based on gcc 3.4 (
cvs ) and it was a really bad idea.

I see.

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 - The PCI slot is 3.3 v and apparently I don't have a single PCI card
that seems to work on it ... When I plug one ( that I thought was 3.3v
), nothing boot, sometimes even the led don't power on ...

Be careful to put it correctly. The slot bracket has  to  be  on  the
side where the UART / USB / CAN connctors are. Do not insert the card
with the slot bracket pointing to the IDE connector.

Also be VERY carefully  which  card  you  insert.  make  sure  it  is
_really_ a 3.3V compatible card. [I fried a board by trying a Digitus
"DC  SER2 Rev. 2.0 Serial PCI I/O Card" - this card has the key slots
for a 3.3/5V combi card, but the V_I/O pins are connected to  the  5V
rail. The RAM chips didn't like to see 5V ...]

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 - When I change options in the kernel to support new stuff I need, like
activating USB host & IDE controller, the kernel don't boot at all ( or
at least, I don't see on the serial console it does ). It's the same
problem with activating drivers for the PCI bus ... What is weird is
that it's not an error on boot, it's just that after u-boot messages,
there is nothing at all.

Can you attach a debugger? Or even try  a  post-mortem  dump  of  the
logbif area? Both PCI and USB are working fine for me.

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I'm not sure my hardware is fully OK, but I did mtest on u-boot  for
about 10 hours and it didn't complained. It's a fresh new board from
motorola...

Maybe you can ask for a replacement. Your problems don't look  normal
to me.

I've seen the same symptoms Sylvain described on the five Lite5200
boards that I have tried.  Eepro100 network cards work fine, but the 3
brands of IDE cards I tried are not even visible in PCI config space.
U-boot doesn't see them and Linux doesn't see them, booted either from
dBUG or U-boot.

Actually, one Lite5200/IDE combo comes close.  Parts of the IDE cards
PCI config info do read correctly sometimes.  Different parts each time.
I think this is likely a hardware issue with Lite5200 boards.

-Dale Farnsworth

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