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13 years ago

Problem booting MMU-Linux

Hello everyone,

got a nice issue booting mmu-linux. Here are two outputs, both done by the same (!!) system/zImage.

http://pastebin.com/kapwe2qm

http://pastebin.com/kbg0hh4u

Basically having searched the forum and google I could not find any solutions, but what looks very strange to me is the line saying:

"NR_IRQS:64"

i use:

The latest 20100621 Archive with today's ./update with the included toolchain-mmu.

Branches are nios2 (linux-2.6) and trunk (uClinux-dist).

Compilation is based on device tree and I used the instructions on alterawiki.com/wiki/devicetree

(jtag uart console)

The sof is downloaded via nios2-configure-sof.

Here is my .dts:

http://pastebin.com/jbtyddwz

This is a screenshot of SOPC-Builder:

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    13 years ago

    Got some additional information:

    In SOPC Builder I did the configuration as it is told here:

    http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/creating_a_nios_ii_design_with_an_mmu

    ..so as you can see I configured Fast TLB Miss Exception Vector to the onchip_memory.

    This way I get the result as posted above/beginning.

    Now I tried to change the Fast TLB Miss Exception Vector to SDRam, same as the (standard) Exception Vector. I attached a screenshot so it's easy to see what I mean. I did not change anything else but this TLB Miss Exception Vector, and now the result is a boot until "calibrating delay loop..." and then nothing happens, the unhandled exception that always occured at this point does not show up but the system of course still doesn't boot (though the reset vector is pointing to Flash I download via nios2-download -g ... for the moment):

    Linux version 3.3.0-rc6-01289-g036d5b6 (andreas@igor) (gcc version 4.1.2)# 21 Fri Mar 9 10:58:24 CET 2012

    bootconsole [early0] enabled

    early_console initialized at 0xe9001040

    On node 0 totalpages: 8192

    free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat d0578b14, node_mem_map d058ec60

    DMA zone: 64 pages used for memmap

    DMA zone: 0 pages reserved

    DMA zone: 8128 pages, LIFO batch:0

    pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768

    pcpu-alloc: [0] 0

    Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8128

    Kernel command line:

    PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)

    Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

    Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

    Memory available: 26760k/5682k RAM (2263k kernel code, 3419k data)

    NR_IRQS:64

    Calibrating delay loop...

    Another member got this problem a little time ago and posted in this thread:

    http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27543

    But he could never solve the problem as it seems, I also followed his link to the mailing list but there is no solution to the problem.

    My board is a DE2-70, too btw. ;)

    Does anyone else have an idea?

    Thanks for help,

    Andi
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    13 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Basically having searched the forum and google I could not find any solutions, but what looks very strange to me is the line saying:

    "NR_IRQS:64"

    --- Quote End ---

    What should be strange about this? It's perfectly normal (though it was 32 before but we needed to increase the possible number of IRQs to support GPIO IRQs properly). 

    Unhandled exception# 0 in kernel mode

    Exception# 0 is for reset, so this means the Nios' reset line is asserted (by some external component). You might wan't to check your design.