C3100 2.6 Kernel Tester Urgently Needed

[martinbogo]

Well, the kernel does boot.   The console messages fly by in PORTRAIT mode though, and I don't have a way to scroll back through the messages.  What I really should have had is a serial console running ... -sigh-

In any case, the kernel panics with an expected "Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel."

There are a lot of "Bad eraseblock xxx at 0x00000000" where xxx are numbers like 938, 985 and the memory ranges look like 0x7540000 and 0x7b20000 etc.. etc..

I did see messages like "spitz_pci_setpower: on"

Pressing the power button results in :

power.c: device-level power management is not supported uet
power: requesting system suspend


In any case, here is my attempt to type what's on the screen---->

Creating 3 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-nand":
0x00000000-0x00700000 : "System Area"
Charge LED On
0x00700000-0x2700000 : "Root Filesystem"
0x02700000-0x8000000 : "Home Filesystem"
NET: Registered protocol family 2
spitz_mci_setpower: on
spitz_mci_setpower: on
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 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
Probing IDE interface ide0...
mmcblk0: mmc0:a95c SD128 123008KiB
 mmcblk0: p1
hda: HMS360604D5CF00, CFA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xc4820000-0xc4820007,0xc482000e on irq 138
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 7999488 sectors (4095 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=7936/16/63
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-cs: hda: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing init memory: 76K
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init = option to kernel.

And with that ... my typing hand wants to fall off.  T-t-t-t-t-t-hhats all folks.

-Martin

[rpurdie]

Well, the kernel does boot.   The console messages fly by in PORTRAIT mode though, and I don't have a way to scroll back through the messages.  What I really should have had is a serial console running ... -sigh-
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Portrait is to be expected on these devices as the framebuffer doesn't support hardware rotation like the c7x0s. Someone needs to add software rotate to fbcon. Its a low priority for me at the moment but will happen. opie/gpe already have software rotation so its not a problem.

In any case, the kernel panics with an expected "Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel."
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Yes, that's expected as your microdrive won't have a /sbin/init. If it had, it would probably happily boot from it!

There are a lot of "Bad eraseblock xxx at 0x00000000" where xxx are numbers like 938, 985 and the memory ranges look like 0x7540000 and 0x7b20000 etc.. etc..
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I need to add a fix for that on Borzoi as it suffers the mtd virtual block problem. This has reminded me, thanks!

I did see messages like "spitz_pci_setpower: on"
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That's it trying to power the MMC/SD slot which is good.

Pressing the power button results in :

power.c: device-level power management is not supported uet
power: requesting system suspend
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That's normal for 2.6 kernels. I'll remove the first message at some point as its annoying/confusing.

In any case, here is my attempt to type what's on the screen---->

Creating 3 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-nand":
0x00000000-0x00700000 : "System Area"
Charge LED On
0x00700000-0x2700000 : "Root Filesystem"
0x02700000-0x8000000 : "Home Filesystem"
NET: Registered protocol family 2
spitz_mci_setpower: on
spitz_mci_setpower: on
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 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
Probing IDE interface ide0...
mmcblk0: mmc0:a95c SD128 123008KiB
 mmcblk0: p1
hda: HMS360604D5CF00, CFA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xc4820000-0xc4820007,0xc482000e on irq 138
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 7999488 sectors (4095 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=7936/16/63
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-cs: hda: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing init memory: 76K
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
Warning: unable to open an initial console
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init = option to kernel.

And with that ... my typing hand wants to fall off.  T-t-t-t-t-t-hhats all folks.

-Martin
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And this tells me everything I need to know. It can only have printed that if it correctly identified the machine as a Borzoi. Thanks for testing and you can look forward to 2.6 kernels on this device. We might even have 2.6 kernels+images for akita, spitz and borzoi for OZ 3.5.4 (perhaps unofficially).

I can't tell you how much I needed that test report and the results are near perfect! Thanks

[martinbogo]

My pleasure.   As we speak, the NAND flash backup of my OZ 3.5.3 image is going back onto the little beast.   If you would be so kind, how long would it take you to create a bootable OZ 3.5.3 image + 2.6?  

Oh .. tip for those who might not know.   If you need to boot into single-user with a backup ROM kernel, you can use the following procedure on a Borzoi (and Spitz as well):

Slide battery switch <OFF>
remove battery, wait about 30 seconds
Press and HOLD <D><B>
slide battery switch <ON>  (do NOT release <D><B>!!!!)
press power switch (do NOT release <D><B>!!!!)
machine will boot single-user mode, with kernel 2.4.20 and present a login prompt

You may use user "zaurus" or "root", assuming the flash disk image is intact.

[martinbogo]

Richard,

Didn't Ken L. get similar results back on Aug 30th?  

-Martin

[rpurdie]

Richard,

Didn't Ken L. get similar results back on Aug 30th?   

-Martin
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He tested akita (C1000), you've tested the C3100 and I have a C3000. I now know detection of each model works. You'll notice you were using the same kernel as the C1000 yet they did different things  

[rpurdie]

My pleasure.   As we speak, the NAND flash backup of my OZ 3.5.3 image is going back onto the little beast.   If you would be so kind, how long would it take you to create a bootable OZ 3.5.3 image + 2.6? 

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I have bootable OZ-3.5.4-pre + 2.6 here now although there is at least one serious bug. I wouldn't bother trying OZ-3.5.3 as none of the model specifics are in the OE metadata from that era.

I'm in the process of rewriting almost all the kernel patches. Once this is done, I might have time to make some kernels+images available.

Richard

[martinbogo]

Eeeexxxcceeelllleeeeent.   In the meantime, I'm going to take a look at Sharp's OSS sound driver code, take a gander at the I2S code, and see what's involved in getting sound on the Borzoi as a going concern.  


Rewriting the patches eh?  Sounds like you're going to push even more of them back into the mainline kernel then, which is a good thing for maintainability.  

Buenas Noches!
-Martin