Some more Snappy Gumstix (and Panda and Beagleboard)

[Ash Charles]

A little more follow-up:
I tried a known good image (old 2.6.32 kernel) on the board with the
15.04 u-boot and it boots into the kernel just fine.  I'm therefore a
little suspicious of the kernel/dtb....

--Ash

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Ash Charles <ashcharles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> I gave both u-boot 14.10 (can't load raw initrd) and 15.01 with the
> Ubuntu gcc-linux-armeabihf (4.9.2) and gcc-linux-armeabi (4.7.4)
> compilers with and without initrd (ie. run loadkernel; run loadfdt;
> bootz ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}).  Unfortunately, no joy.
>
> Note: initrd_addr=0x88080000
>
> --Ash
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati at canonical.com> wrote:
>> in my experience uboot tends to break in between releases so, if you can,
>> avoid the bleeding edge - there's a 2015.01 release, can you try that?
>>
>> moreover:
>>
>> -where do you load initrd? what's the address? fdt? kernel?
>> -can you manually boot just the kernel + fdt?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Ash Charles <ashcharles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Alexander Sack <asac at canonical.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 15.04/stable channel there haven't been any updates yet. If you use
>>> > --channel edge when producing your initial image you should get
>>> > regular/daily updates to test this.
>>> Woohoo!  It works :D.  Thanks for the suggestion of changing channels
>>> as I created an image yesterday, did a 'snappy update ubuntu-core' and
>>> then rebooted directly into the updated version.
>>>
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> I haven't seen any uImage vz zImage issues (perhaps this is the issue
>>> >> on beagle though?).  I did use the latest release of u-boot (15.04) as
>>> >> the RAW_INITRD wasn't working for me on 14.10.
>>> >
>>> > Do you have a log of where it hangs on the beagle XM?
>>> Right at 'Starting Kernel....'.  I enabled earlyprink and I've posted
>>> the log here [1] but there is not much to go on.  I wonder if beagle
>>> doesn't like a raw ramdisk for some reason?
>>>
>>> [1] http://paste.ubuntu.com/10990642/
>>>
>>> --Ash
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> bye,
>> p.