RE: [microblaze-uclinux] Newbie on an Avnet V5LX50 board

[Rick Hunnicutt <RHunnicutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

With all the help I found we had the IRQ for the UART wrong in our setup. Once that was fixed, the console started working as advertised. Now, I need to get the Ethernet working...

Thanks again!

Rick Hunnicutt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-microblaze-
> uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michal Simek
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:10 AM
> To: microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Newbie on an Avnet V5LX50 board
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> here is the line from inittab for latest svn repo.
> ttyUL0:vt100:/bin/agetty 9600 ttyUL0
>
> you use older version there should be written
> ttyS0:vt100:/bin/agetty 9600 ttyS0
>
> From my experience, baudrate doesn't matter.
>
> Your next choice is added command line console=ttyS0,9600 or
> console=/dev/ttyS0,9600. You can pass it from U-BOOT or in your case if
> you use
> xmd for loading.
> make menuconfig
> go to processor type and features -> boot option -> default kernel
> command line
> (CONFIG_CMDLINE)and force default kernel command string
> (CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE).
>
> Regards,
> Michal
>
>
>
> Rick Hunnicutt wrote:
> > Thank you.  So, I have it enabled. I also enabled the heartbeat as
> Michal suggested and it blinks away so as John said, the kernel seems
> to be running. I have tried several options with the inittab file with
> the agetty line (ttyS0, /dev/ttyS0, different baud rates, ::respawn,
> etc), all to no avail. Any other ideas?
> >
> >
> > I've also enabled the cache now and xmd shows it enabled when the bit
> file is loaded but the bogomips line is still the same.... What is a
> normal reading for this if the cache is enabled properly? I also tried
> the romfs but made no difference (besides the file being much
> larger...).
> >
> > Thanks all very much!
> >
> > Rick Hunnicutt
> >
> >
> > From: owner-microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-
> microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hubert Bahr
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:15 PM
> > To: microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Newbie on an Avnet V5LX50 board
> >
> > You have the suggested option  selected.
> >
> > --- Non-8250 serial port support
> > <*> Xilinx uartlite serial port support
> >  [*]   Support for console on Xilinx uartlite serial port
> >
> >
> > Rick Hunnicutt wrote:
> > Thank you John.
> >
> > Under device drivers -> char devices -> serial devices, I only have:
> >
> > < > 8250/16550 and compatible serial support
> > --- Non-8250 serial port support
> > <*> Xilinx uartlite serial port support
> >  [*]   Support for console on Xilinx uartlite serial port
> >
> > How do I get the option you speak of?
> >
> > Thanks much!
> > Rick Hunnicutt
> > ________________________________________
> > From: owner-microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [owner-microblaze-
> uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Williams
> [jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:32 AM
> > To: microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Newbie on an Avnet V5LX50 board
> >
> > Hi Rick,
> >
> > Rick Hunnicutt wrote:
> >
> > Hello all:
> >
> > I'm a newbie and I'm trying to bring up the aforementioned board.
> I've disabled Ethernet and flash, just using XDM to load the image.bin
> to the SDRAM location. It loads and starts to boot but stops with no
> clues as to why, at least not that I can glean. Any help as to my next
> steps would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> >
> > uclinux[mtd]: set ROMfs to be root filesystem index=0
> > VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
> >
> >
> > In kernel config, device drivers -> char devices -> serial devices,
> > ensure that "Console on UARTLITE" is selected.  It looks like the
> kernel
> > is booting just fine but there's just no console output.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
> >
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