Installing Dreamplug with kirkwood-latest

[moonman]

You can, if you want. I don't know if it will help. With the new u-boot you can just load dtb and zimage separately so you can drop those manual steps of appending dtb and making uimage. I really don't know what changed. I've looked through configs and patches upstream and really could not see anything related.

Here's all the past kernels that we've used. If you want to pinpoint which exact version stopped booting.
http://rollback.archlinuxarm.org/packag ... -kirkwood/
Though I don't know if it will help.

[ineiti]

Thanks for the link - I nailed it down to:

linux-kirkwood-3.13.7-1-arm.pkg.tar.xz - OK
linux-kirkwood-3.13.9-2-arm.pkg.tar.xz - FAIL

The only differences I find are when starting up
3.13.7:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[ 15.208663] Security Framework initialized
[ 15.208689] AppArmor: AppArmor disabled by boot time parameter
[ 15.208752] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 15.209340] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
')

versus 3.13.9:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[ 14.642405] Security Framework initialized
[ 14.642431] AppArmor: AppArmor disabled by boot time parameter
[ 14.642497] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 14.642514] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 14.643094] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
')

And then of course the device-detection:
3.13.7
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[ 18.314812] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 18.319663] registered taskstats version 1
[ 18.341041] mmc0: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001
[ 18.514039] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 18.685289] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 18.694028] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 18.984266] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci
[ 19.116817] usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 19.134121] scsi1 : usb-storage 1-1.1:1.0
[...]
[ 20.664046] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[ 21.864857] UKSM: relative memcmp_cost = 2600 hash=234621611 cmp_ret=0.
[ 21.878677] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 21.882355] netconsole: network logging started
[ 21.887033] rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2014-06-19 08:21:05 UTC (1403166065)
[ 21.936682] EXT3-fs (sdc5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)
[ 21.946412] EXT2-fs (sdc5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)
[ 22.010616] EXT4-fs (sdc5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 22.018361] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 8:37.
[ 22.059576] devtmpfs: mounted
')

3.13.9
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[ 17.758570] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 17.763422] registered taskstats version 1
[ 17.768605] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 17.772322] netconsole: network logging started
[ 17.776965] rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2014-06-19 08:27:10 UTC (1403166430)
[ 17.785533] VFS: Cannot open root device "sdc5" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[ 17.792969] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[ 17.801424] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 17.809726] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.13.9-2-ARCH #1
')

Now I'm off trying to build a 3.13.7-kernel, hoping it'll work, then try the 3.13.9 and see what's wrong... Could take a couple of days, so if somebody else has any idea in the meantime.

[ineiti]

Well, the config is the same in both revisions - seems the kernel is the only change. Now what could've changed in between 3.13.7 and 3.13.9? Is there a compilation of kernel 3.13.8 somewhere?

I tried to <ctrl-f> through the changelogs

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... Log-3.13.8
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... Log-3.13.9

but nothing important "usb", "sdio", "storage" - perhaps it's the build-environment?

[moonman]

Might have skipped the 8. I am on the phone atm, but here's an easy to read changelog https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kerne ... gs/v3.13.9

[moonman]

The only related thing to mmc i found was this commit in 3.13.8:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kerne ... 7edd9898c8

[ineiti]

I don't think it's only MMC, as the USB-attached harddisk is not recognized neither. My hunch is more with USB, or is that illogical?

[ineiti]

Now I tried re-compiling 3.13.7 and it won't boot, neither I also tried compiling 3.15.1, which won't boot. Worst is, there seems to be a patch for the wireless-problems I had, but without a running kernel I can't even try that.

Somebody has an idea what I could test?

[WarheadsSE]

I do wish I could help, but without the hardware, it is very hard.

[moonman]

1 thing you could try is to use rollback machine and use all the packages from around 3.13.7 time. You can add rollback machine as a repo in pacman. Then try to compile the new 3.15 using older base devel.

[kmihelich]

I've seen people noting on mailing lists that the Dreamplug has been mysteriously broken in newer kernels. Not sure what is going on with it.