[yocto] Unable to get serial console login prompt - PowerPC 440 Virtex 5 processor

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com> wrote:
> On 08/08/2012 03:05 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
>>
>> These seem like quite different issues, code generation vs. some
>> inittab foo... are you seeing this issues with upstream? I've recently
>> gotten some inittab cleanups into oe-core for master / denzil / my own
>> edison branch + meta-fsl-ppc...
>
>
> On 08/08/2012 03:05 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:> These seem like
> quite different issues, code generation vs. some
>
>> inittab foo... are you seeing this issues with upstream? I've recently
>> gotten some inittab cleanups into oe-core for master / denzil / my own
>> edison branch + meta-fsl-ppc...
>
> Thanks Matthew.   I need to sort this out with some regression testing.  The
> latest master branches of poky & meta-fsl-ppc provides a kernel that oops
> while it's probing flash during boot.
>
> With the latest fsl-image-minimal rootfs and a mainline kernel, I get an
> init that hangs when it tries to exec getty.
>
> I see that the the "serial8250: too much work for irq42" message comes from
> "drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c" and that there have been plenty of patches
> to this file this year.
>
> I'll chime in again later.

Sorry to say - master get's the least testing too.. we just move to
denzil... others have had success with master branches with the same
linux-qoriq-sdk kernel though...

-M