[meta-xilinx] qemuzynq fails to boot

[Mike Looijmans]

Taking a peek into my OE layer (using mdev for everything), the correct value 
appears to be "busybox-mdev":

https://github.com/topic-embedded-products/meta-topic/blob/master/conf/distro/tiny.conf


Mike.

On 09/24/2014 11:52 AM, Simon Vincent wrote:
> I am not sure why we have it set to mtdev! However it looks like bitbake
> ignores it.
>
> With it set to mtdev bitbake compiles and it hangs on boot.
> With it set to mdev I get a bitbake error. "ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'mdev'"
> With it blank (VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager = "") it hangs on boot the same as
> mtdev.
>
> On 24/09/14 10:25, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>> should that be "mdev" instead of "mtdev"?
>>
>> On 09/24/2014 11:14 AM, Simon Vincent wrote:
>>> I have just done a few more builds and can confirm that sysvinit does work
>>> with the default options.
>>> The problem seems to be I was building sysvinit with mtdev.
>>> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_dev_manager = "mtdev"
>>> sysvinit with udev works
>>> sysvinit with mtdev fails
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> On 24/09/14 08:16, Nathan Rossi wrote:
>>>>>
>>
>> Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,
>>
>> Mike Looijmans
>>
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Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,

Mike Looijmans

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-----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Simon Vincent [mailto:simon.vincent at xsilon.com]
>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 6:09 PM
>>>>> To: Nathan Rossi
>>>>> Cc: meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [meta-xilinx] qemuzynq fails to boot
>>>>>
>>>>> I managed to get it working in the end by tweaking my local.conf.
>>>>> I posted the solution on the xilinx forum.
>>>>> http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Embedded-Linux/Qemu-fails-to-boot-zynq-
>>>>> image/m-p/518373/highlight/false#M10515
>>>>> The solution is to use systemd instead of sysvinit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Systemd is not ideal for embedded targets so it would be good if I can
>>>>> switch back to sysvinit.
>>>> The default nodistro oe-core should work fine, and sysvinit should work fine
>>>> to. Which is what I am seeing with my builds.
>>>>
>>>> I noticed a very curious error message in your bootlog:
>>>> Starting Bootlog daemon: bootlogd: cannot find console device 249:0 under
>>>> /dev
>>>>
>>>> It looks like the serial device is missing, more interestingly it looks like
>>>> the image you have built is not running the udev during init. You should
>>>> have the following messages right after the kernel starts init:
>>>>
>>>> INIT: version 2.88 booting
>>>> Starting udev
>>>> [    4.522565] udevd[573]: starting version 182
>>>>
>>>> Would you be able to provide the rootfs image you built? This looks like an
>>>> odd bug.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Nathan
>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22/09/14 02:53, Nathan Rossi wrote:
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: meta-xilinx-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-xilinx-
>>>>>>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Simon Vincent
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:40 AM
>>>>>>> To: meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org
>>>>>>> Subject: [meta-xilinx] qemuzynq fails to boot
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have built a linux image for qemu-zynq via setting my yocto machine
>>>>> to
>>>>>>> qemuzynq and doing a bitbake core-image-minimal
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I then try and run the image on qemu via the following command:
>>>>>>> runqemu qemuzynq nographic
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I then find it starts to boot and locks up at the end. I get the
>>>>>>> following error messages:
>>>>>>> Stopping Bootlog daemon: bootlogd.
>>>>>>> INIT: Id "PS0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>>>>>> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>>>>>> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The full boot output can be found at:
>>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/MvEHN9Tk
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have been away for a few weeks, so I have only just had a chance to
>>>>> look at this. Is this still an issue? As I am unable to reproduce this
>>>>> with meta-xilinx + oe-core master.
>>>>>> If it is, could you provide your build setup (the message at the top of
>>>>> a bitbake run is sufficient).
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Nathan
>>>
>>
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