[meta-freescale] kernel stuck at start up on iMx6solo customized board

[Marc Ferland]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:41 AM Vahid Gharaee <vgharaee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a customized imx6 solo board. 1 GB of DDR3 ram and MMC for boot.
>
> I have ported u-boot(the fslc community one) and it seems to work fine. I
> also run stress RAM test and it came out OK. (calibration data is used in
> imximage.cfg)
>
> when I attempt to run kernel it stuck at "*starting kernel*" commands:
>
> >>ext4load mmc 0 ${loadaddr} zImage >>ext4load mmc 0 ${fdt_addr} *.dtb >>bootz ${loadaddr} - ${fdt_addr}
>
> (loadaddr=0x12000000 and fdt_addr=0x18000000 the bootargs has the right
> ttymxc and baudrate value)
>
> with early printk it says: "*Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the
> kernel.*"
>
> *printk* doesn't work, (Guess the initialize not done).
>
> Fortunately, I have some LEDs on board, so I tried to use them and trace
> the code. the it seems it kernel hangs at enabling MMU:
>
> /arch/arm/kernel/head.S :
>
> . .     ENTRY(__turn_mmu_on)         mov r0, r0         instr_sync        mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0         mrc p15, 0, r3, c0, c0, 0        instr_sync         mov r3, r3         mov r3, r13         ret r3     __turn_on_mmu_end     ENDPROC(__turn_mmu_on)`enter code here` ...
>
> those mcr and mrc are the point that i can toggle GPIObefore them and not
> after!
>
> I should add: to toggling GPIO I used physical address before them and
> virtual address after.(I also test with physical add) physical address: for
> example 0x0209c000 -> gpio data register which virtual address is:
> 0xf429c000 (just in iMX platform)
>
> also I disable i/d cache before boot up kernel. didn't know how to disable
> MMU but according the u-boot it seems to be disabled.
>
> please help me find the solution.
>
This sometimes is a symptom of an error in the device-tree. Start with the
most basic device-tree you can and then work your way up.

Hope that helps.

Marc
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