[okl4-developer] okl4 in qemu emulated gumstix environment

[Ashish Bijlani]

I'm using okl4-1.4.1.1 and it doesn't seem to be having ig_serial
under "linux/kernel/arch/l4/drivers", however it has "l4e_console". Is
this normal? How do I enter KDB before executing /etc/init.d/rc?

Thanks,
Ashish

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Geoffrey Lee <glee at ok-labs.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:43:51AM -0400, Ashish Bijlani wrote:
>> Thanks for your quick reply. However, I'm using okl4-1.4 and I didn't
>> change anything in it. I get shell using skyeye but no network as
>> skyeye does not emulate smc91x network card. I don't get shell in
>> qemu. The face that it runs fine on skyeye, indicates that ig_serial
>> has been configured properly, isn't it?
>
> Not necessarily, the simulator may sometimes behave differently
> to how the hardware really behaves.  Please have a look around
> the system to see if there are any clues of misbehavior, for
> example, are you actually receiving any interrupts at all when
> you hit a key on the serial?  Is the serial driver initialized
> properly, or if vserial is present on the system at all?  Is there
> any interaction between the vserial and OK Linux?  The KDB should be
> quite helpful here.
>
>
>        -gl
>>
>> -Ashish
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Geoffrey Lee <glee at ok-labs.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:04:57AM -0400, Ashish Bijlani wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm able to boot OKL4 in QEMU emulated gumstix environment. However,
>> >> I'm not able to get "Linux user startup!" and following messages on
>> >> the qemu serial console. Any ideas why?
>> >>
>> >> This is what I did:
>> >>
>> >> cp build/image.boot /tftpboot/.
>> >> ../qemu-gumstix/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M gumstix -hda
>> >> ../connex-gumstix/flash -net nic -net tap,ifname=qtap0  -m 256
>> >> -monitor null -serial stdio -m 289 -nographic
>> >>
>> >> GUM>
>> >> GUM> setenv ipaddr 10.0.0.231
>> >> GUM> setenv serverip 10.0.0.29
>> >> GUM> tftpboot a2000000 image.boot
>> >> GUM> bootelf a2000000
>> >>
>> >> The OKL4 kernel, wombat, iguana everything is loaded and booted
>> >> properly. However, I don't see any messages after :
>> >>
>> >> NET: Registered protocol family 15
>> >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>> >
>> > This probably means ig_serial.c or the user-level serial driver
>> > in drivers/ is misconfigured.  The kernel bootup messages get
>> > shown via the KDB console, which gets routed to the driver
>> > in the OKL4 kernel.  Once you get to Linux user startup
>> > output gets routed through /dev/ttyS0, which is backed by
>> > ig_serial.
>> >
>> >        -gl
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Am I missing something?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Ashish
>> >>
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