B3, Kirkwood based miniserver

[ReedWood]

I will provide instructions.

[minkanjin]

Hi

I'm currently trying to get newer kernels to work on my b3. 3.1 works but anything newer doesn't. I've tried install the 3TB u-boot patch but that didn't resolve the problem.

From the serial console I got u-boot version info as:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')-Boot 2010.06 (Jun 10 2011 - 09:06:51)
BUBBA|3

[ReedWood]

With the B3 3TB patch from Excito, I am running the kernel 3.10.10-1 which was provided by moonman earlier on this post. However, the current kernel from the repo does not work for me any more. This is unfortunate from my point of view. If this could be helped, I would really appreachiate it.

@minkanjin: If you have any specific question I can answer, I am glad to help.

[moonman]

So it doesn't work with the kernel in the repo? can you guys provide a bootlog (serial, netconsole?) for the newer kernel?

[ReedWood]

moonman thank you again for your quick response. Since I have no serial, I have to read up on netconsole. I provide you with info asap.

[minkanjin]

3.11.6 seems to work if I use a fairly recent uboot image. The 3TB image isn't good enough. Here is an ongoing thread on the excito forum regarding the uboot issue: http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4641

@moonman: can I get the new Bubba kernel patches from you. I'm actually a gentoo user, so I need them to build my own kernel.

Also, is there a possibility that those patches could get committed to the vanilla kernel?

[WarheadsSE]

https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUIL ... xarm.patch

[moonman]

Yup, WarheadsSE already pointed you to the patch. Bubba support was never taken out since it was added. You might want to try 3.12 as well: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=6396 . The patch will apply to the vanilla kernel but there's 0 chances it will ever be in vanilla because they are switching to fdt and the patch creates board files. The actually removed a good chunk of the boardfiles in 3.12.
Gentoo though... you are going to have a to spend a lot of time compiling packages on this hardware.

[minkanjin]

I'm getting the following with both 3.11.6 and 3.12.0 and their respective patches.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') CHK include/config/kernel.release
CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
make[1]: `include/generated/mach-types.h' is up to date.
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/generated/compile.h
CC arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/bubba3-setup.o
arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/bubba3-setup.c: In function 'bubba3_pci_init':
arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/bubba3-setup.c:218:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'machine_is_bubba3' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/bubba3-setup.c: At top level:
arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/bubba3-setup.c:225:1: error: 'MACH_TYPE_BUBBA3' undeclared here (not in a function)
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/bubba3-setup.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/arm/mach-kirkwood] Error 2

[WarheadsSE]

Check your mach-types.h