[meta-freescale] imx53 linux-fslc

[Fabio Estevam]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Janis Coders <janis.coders at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I've got a situation where I need to use a newer version of Linux kernel,
> but unfortunatelly by default the imx53 stable version is 2.6.35. I've
> configured local.conf to use the upstream kernel (which is version 3.12):
>
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-fslc"
>
> Everything is fine except the booting seems like to stop at sdma/vpu error:
>
> ...........................
> ...........................
> drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
> imx-drm imx-drm: No connectors reported connected with modes
> [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes - going 1024x768
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> imx-drm imx-drm: fb0:  frame buffer device
> imx-drm imx-drm: registered panic notifier
> ALSA device list:
>   #0: imx53-qsb-sgtl5000
> mmc1: BKOPS_EN bit is not set
> Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk1p2...
> mmc1: new high speed MMC card at address 0001
> mmcblk0: mmc1:0001 HYNIX  3.60 GiB
> mmcblk0boot0: mmc1:0001 HYNIX  partition 1 2.00 MiB
> mmcblk0boot1: mmc1:0001 HYNIX  partition 2 2.00 MiB
> mmcblk0rpmb: mmc1:0001 HYNIX  partition 3 2.00 MiB
>  mmcblk0: unknown partition table
>  mmcblk0boot1: unknown partition table
>  mmcblk0boot0: unknown partition table
> usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ci_hdrc
> hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 2-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
> imx-sdma 63fb0000.sdma: firmware not found
> coda 63ff4000.vpu: firmware request failed

The kernel can still work without sdma and vpu firmwares.

>
> And then it hangs and nothing gets printed. What is this error? Is it
> critical and kernel stops booting? How can I know if it really proceeds,
> because I need to get to login prompt?

Looks like the error you are facing is in other area.

Could you please try selecting CONFIG_FHANDLE=y?

Regards,

Fabio Estevam