port uclinux on stm32f7?

[sheng yang]

Posted on April 10, 2018 at 17:23

I want to port uclinux to my board based on stm32f767igt,i portted u-boot before.Now i want to port uClinux to my board.So i download uClinux-dist-20160919.tar.bz2,then i compile the kernel with arch/arm/configs/stm32_defconfig,after i compile Image,then i generate the uImage file with command kimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0xc0008000 -e 0xc0008001 -n 'yyfish' -d Image yyfish.bin.but i hung with Starting kernel...

i use uart1 as my console,so i use a dtb file with stm32469i-eval.dtb.i pushed the kernel and dtb file .Is there any good advice?

[stm322399]

Posted on April 10, 2018 at 17:40

What is the version of your toolchain ? binutils is known to break thumb linux since 2.29 ... and nobody cares ...

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Hum, looks like you are using gcc5, so probably binutils <2.29

The problem is maybe in Linux, maybe in u-boot, maybe anywhere else.

When STM32 port has earlyprintk, use it.

Otherwise, buildroot can also help you, they use another bootloader (leaner than u-boot). Of course, make sure to avoid binutils 2.29 and higher when choosing the toolchain.

[sheng yang]

Posted on April 11, 2018 at 03:53

I download the tool china from uClinux site

https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/uclinux/Tools/arm-uclinuxeabi-20160831/arm-uclinuxeabi-tools-20160831.tar.gz

 the version arm-uclinuxeabi-tools-20160831.tar.gz. is gcc 5.4.0 and (GNU Binutils) 2.26.20160125 .

i tried use code as *(volatile int *)(0x40011028) = 'Y' in init/main.c start_kernel funtion;and i can see the Y charactor in the uart1.So I guess the problem is the console init,and i want to check code with this.i do not know why the console did not be relate with printk function.

[stm322399]

Posted on April 11, 2018 at 09:31

That's the way Linux does work: printk go to buffer, and the buffer might be streamed to uart.

Sending Y's was a good idea, you can use that to find where it locks by dichotomy.

I recently see an issue where the kernel was unable to mount root, and crashes, with no output. Try to use LLDEBUG and earlyprintk.