[oe-users] Problem generating uImage for gumstix

Steve Sakoman sakoman at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 21:12:08 UTC 2007 

Philip,

> Can you try with the kernel created by OE?

So to do that, in gumstix.conf would I replace:

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-gumstix"

with

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux"

Steve

On 8/17/07, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>
> Can you try with the kernel created by OE? It is also a 2.6.15 kernel,
> but maybe the kernel config is updated.
>
> Philip
>
> Steve Sakoman wrote:
> > Philip,
> >
> > Thanks for your help!  That yielded a bootable image and gets me to a
> login
> > prompt.  See below for the boot messages.
> >
> > A good start, but still some issues to resolve -- udevd for example,
> perhaps
> > a mismatch with the gumstix kernel revision?
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Instruction Cache is ON
> > ### JFFS2 loading 'boot/uImage' to 0xa2000000
> > Scanning JFFS2 FS: ........ done.
> > ### JFFS2 load complete: 749692 bytes loaded to 0xa2000000
> > ## Booting image at a2000000 ...
> >    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.15gum
> >    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> >    Data Size:    749628 Bytes = 732.1 kB
> >    Load Address: a0008000
> >    Entry Point:  a0008000
> > OK
> >
> > Starting kernel ...
> >
> > Linux version 2.6.15gum (sakoman at tera) (gcc version 4.1.1) #1 Fri Aug 17
> > 08:25:11 PDT 2007
> > CPU: XScale-PXA255 [69052d06] revision 6 (ARMv5TE)
> > Machine: The Gumstix Platform
> > Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
> > Memory clock: 99.53MHz (*27)
> > Run Mode clock: 199.07MHz (*2)
> > Turbo Mode clock: 199.07MHz (*1.0, inactive)
> > CPU0: D VIVT undefined 5 cache
> > CPU0: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
> > CPU0: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
> > Built 1 zonelists
> > Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=1f01 rootfstype=jffs2
> > reboot=cold,hard
> > PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes)
> > Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> > Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> > Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
> > Memory: 63256KB available (1249K code, 245K data, 56K init)
> > Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> > CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
> > NET: Registered protocol family 16
> > JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
> > Initializing Cryptographic API
> > io scheduler noop registered
> > pxa2xx-uart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40100000 (irq = 15) is a FFUART
> > pxa2xx-uart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x40200000 (irq = 14) is a BTUART
> > pxa2xx-uart.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x40700000 (irq = 13) is a STUART
> > pxa2xx-uart.3: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x41600000 (irq = 0) is a HWUART
> > Probing Gumstix Flash ROM at physical address 0x00000000 (16-bit
> bankwidth)
> > Gumstix Flash ROM: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
> >  Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x0031
> > Using buffer write method
> > cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
> > Using static partitions on Gumstix Flash ROM
> > Creating 2 MTD partitions on "Gumstix Flash ROM":
> > 0x00000000-0x00040000 : "Bootloader"
> > 0x00040000-0x01000000 : "RootFS"
> > NET: Registered protocol family 2
> > IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> > TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> > TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
> > TCP reno registered
> > TCP bic registered
> > NET: Registered protocol family 1
> > NET: Registered protocol family 17
> > VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
> > Freeing init memory: 56K
> > Starting the hotplug events dispatcher udevd
> > Jan  1 00:19:50 udevd[78]: main: the kernel does not support inotify,
> udevd
> > can't monitor configuration file changes
> > Synthesizing the initial hotplug events
> > modprobe: could not parse modules.dep
> > modprobe: could not parse modules.dep
> > modprobe: could not parse modules.dep
> > Waiting for /dev to be fully populated
> > Remounting root file system...
> > mount: Mounting proc on /proc failed: Device or resource busy
> > root: mount: Mounting rootfs on / failed: No such device
> > root: mount: Mounting usbfs on /proc/bus/usb failed: No such file or
> > directory
> > Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> > Configuring network interfaces... done.
> > hwclock: Could not access RTC: No such file or directory
> > Starting Dropbear SSH server: Will output 1024 bit rsa secret key to
> > '/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key'
> > Generating key, this may take a while...
> > Public key portion is:
> > ssh-rsa
> >
> AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgwCQiHAfZOhoI+uL7Q1s62SVyuJMcwKMk0hoFJ/nNKOi7XO9mC8MOOmOOBVrypkr80XpgCvH29ykM3Zyk1O3XU6Tx1+8VCXnODdzp4upeePQYkV+X5BZgN7XYC+yyBxBCYTDGwapBpvYaVRu3cr1LFenapsXXMFMJPsDVZox0croXPvr
> > root at gumstix
> > Fingerprint: md5 3a:38:71:21:ef:00:48:ba:c1:80:b9:cf:39:04:5a:5d
> > dropbear.
> > Starting syslogd/klogd: done
> >
> > OpenEmbedded Linux gumstix ttyS0
> >
> > gumstix 1 gumstix ttyS0
> >
> > gumstix login: root
> > root at gumstix:~$
> >
> >
> > On 8/17/07, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> >> bitbake angstrom-minimal-image
> >>
> >> or for a few more features
> >>
> >> bitbake angstrom-console-image
> >>
> >> the tasks are an intermediate product, normally we do not build them
> >> directly.
> >>
> >> Philip
> >>
> >> Steve Sakoman wrote:
> >>> Philip,
> >>>
> >>> I don't have that directory after the build.  Only tmp/deploy/ipk
> >> exists.
> >>> Should doing a "bitbake task-boot" create the image?  I wanted to
> start
> >> out
> >>> with something minimal, but perhaps that is too minimal!
> >>>
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >>> On 8/17/07, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> >>>> There should be something that look like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> tmp/deploy/glibc/images/efika
> >>>>
> >>>> probably gumstix instead of Efika.
> >>>>
> >>>> Philip
> >>>>
> >>>> Steve Sakoman wrote:
> >>>>> That's where I looked initially, but my tmp/deploy directory only
> has
> >> an
> >>>> ipk
> >>>>> subdirectory.  No likely candidates there!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Steve
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 8/17/07, Hans Henry von Tresckow <hvontres at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> try looking in the tmp/deploy folder in your build directory. for
> my
> >>>> glibc
> >>>>>> builds for poodle they are in tmp/deploy/glibc/images/poodle
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 8/17/07, Steve Sakoman <sakoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> Hmmm . . . another newbie question!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Where does the rootfs image get placed at the end of the
> >> build?  Can't
> >>>>>>> seem to find it.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'm assuming that the following line in the machine conf file is
> >> what
> >>>>>>> builds it:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> EXTRA_IMAGECMD_jffs2 = "--little-endian --eraseblock=0x20000
> >> --squash"
> >>>>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Steve
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 8/17/07, Philip Balister < philip at balister.org> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Try again. Thanks for your patience.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Philip
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Steve Sakoman wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Philip,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> No joy on the build:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Connecting to prdownloads.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.217|:80...
> >>>>>>>> connected.
> >>>>>>>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
> >>>>>>>>> Location:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/u-boot/u-boot-1.2.0.tar.bz2?download&failedmirror=superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net[following]
> >>>>>>>> <
> >>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/u-boot/u-boot-1.2.0.tar.bz2?download&failedmirror=superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net%5Bfollowing%5D
> >>>>>>>>> 20 redirections exceeded.
> >>>>>>>>> NOTE: Task failed: Fetch failed:
> >>>>>>>>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/u-boot/u-boot-1.2.0.tar.bz2
> >>>>>>>>> NOTE: package uboot-utils-1.2.0-r6: task do_fetch: failed
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> According to SourceForce the source for u-boot seems to have
> >> moved:
> >>>>>>>>> The "U-Boot" Universal Bootloader project provides firmware for
> >> many
> >>>>>>>> CPU
> >>>>>>>>> architectures and boards with full source code under GPL. NOTE:
> >>>>>>>> current
> >>>>>>>>> source code is available from DENX git repository and FTP
> server;
> >>>>>>>> see
> >>>>>>>>> http://www.denx.de/en/Software/GIT
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Steve
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 8/16/07, Steve Sakoman <sakoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> Philip,
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks!  Just did the pull and update.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Build is underway . . .
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Steve
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> On 8/16/07, Philip Balister < philip at balister.org> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> OK, if you pull and update, you should be able to build a
> >> complete
> >>>>>>>> image
> >>>>>>>>>>> for the gumstix. I fixed uboot-utils so it compiles mkimage,
> and
> >>>>>>>> added
> >>>>>>>>>>> uboot-utils as a dependency to the linux-gumstix bb file.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Philip
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Steve Sakoman wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Koen,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your response.  I'm an Open Embedded beginner, so
> >> I'm
> >>>>>>>> not
> >>>>>>>>>>> quite
> >>>>>>>>>>>> sure what to do with your suggestion :-)
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Should the "DEPENDS" statement be added to the gumstix
> machine
> >>>>>>>>>>> definition?
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Steve
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/15/07, Koen Kooi < koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Philip Balister schreef:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I can confirm this is a problem building Angstrom for a
> >> gumstix
> >>>>>>>> with
> >>>>>>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> clean tmp directory. I think the problem is that the kernel
> >>>>>>>> build
> >>>>>>>>>>> needs
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> mkiamge from u-boot, but the gumstix machine does not build
> >>>>>>>> u-boot.
> >>>>>>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> tried building u-bbot for the gumstix, but u-boot contains
> no
> >>>>>>>> config
> >>>>>>>>>>> for
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the hardware. Then I tried building uboot-utils and that
> >> failed
> >>>>>>>>>>> trying
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to unpack :
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> org.openembedded.dev /packages/uboot/files/fw_env.config':
> No
> >>>>>>>> such
> >>>>>>>>>>> file
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> or directory
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, DEPENDS = "u-boot-mkimage-openmoko-native" for a
> >> 'generic'
> >>>>>>>>>>> mkimage in
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> regards,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Koen
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