Debian Installation on Thecus N2350 (Marvell Armada 385)

Hello,

I am also interested in running on my N2350 as the original FW lacks some software and some of them are outdated.
They also provided me the link to GPL source today :)
If I may help with moving forward I will be more than happy.

lordzahl,

Very good! I'll take a look later.

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I am updating this post as I am reading the info from n2350_gpl.tar.gz.

1. The newer DTB that should be used for this Thecus N2350 box:

In the rootfs Debian-4.12.4-mvebu-tld-1-rootfs or in newer kernel linux-4.15.4-mvebu-tld-1:

./boot/dts/armada-388-db.dtb

2. The kernel config in In the rootfs Debian-4.12.4-mvebu-tld-1-rootfs or in newer kernel linux-4.15.4-mvebu-tld-1 should be enough (better) to boot this Thecus box.

3. USB power GPIO (and other GPIOs):

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,50829,54544#msg-54544

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2018 03:28AM by bodhi.

@nailman23: Happy to hear that others are interested. Do you have a serial console yet?

@bodhi: Okay, if i understand you correctly i should still use the dtb from your Debian/linux Images. We also do not need the kernel config. The only thing which is missing (at the moment) is the USB power.

So i was thinking, the dts, which is used for this box does indeed not enable USB power on boot. We can see that, since i was not able to boot the box with stock kernel and dtb from usb.
But there are other dts files for 385/388 processors, which show how to enable usb power. The talk about gpio pin 12 in gpio1 (there seem to be to gpio groups 0 and 1).
I'll attach the dts files to this post.
The armada-38x-modular.dts shows also how to power up USB via a "gpio expander".

lordzahl,

> @bodhi: Okay, if i understand you correctly i
> should still use the dtb from your Debian/linux
> Images. We also do not need the kernel config. The
> only thing which is missing (at the moment) is the
> USB power.

Correct.

>
> So i was thinking, the dts, which is used for this
> box does indeed not enable USB power on boot. We
> can see that, since i was not able to boot the box
> with stock kernel and dtb from usb.

True.

> But there are other dts files for 385/388
> processors, which show how to enable usb power.
> The talk about gpio pin 12 in gpio1 (there seem to
> be to gpio groups 0 and 1).
> I'll attach the dts files to this post.
> The armada-38x-modular.dts shows also how to power
> up USB via a "gpio expander".

Yes, I did implement USB power for the Zyxel NAS326. Each box is likely to have a different GPIO for USB power. For the NAS326:

armada-380-zyxel-nas326.dts

+                usb2_power: regulator@1 {
+                        compatible = "regulator-fixed";
+                        reg = <1>;
+                        regulator-name = "USB2 Power";
+                        regulator-min-microvolt = <5000000>;
+                        regulator-max-microvolt = <5000000>;
+                        enable-active-high;
+                        regulator-always-on;
+                        regulator-boot-on;
+                        gpio = <&gpio1 11 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+                };

So we can search the GPL for this number. If you found the code you think is right, please post.

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lordzahl,

> http://www.thecus.com/Downloads/GPL/arm_32.a385_v3.02.02.11_GPL.tar.bz2

There is no u-boot GPL in this tarball. That would be more helpful than the kernel source.

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Ok found a whole bunch of GPIOs.

/* N2350 GPIO(MPP) Definition */
static const unsigned char FAN_TACH = 6;
static const unsigned char STAT_LED_WHITE = 14;
static const unsigned char STAT_LED_RED = 15;
static const unsigned char USB_LED_WHITE = 16;
static const unsigned char USB_LED_RED = 17;
static const unsigned char PWR_LED_RED = 18;
static const unsigned char HDD1_LED_WHITE = 19;
static const unsigned char HDD0_LED_WHITE = 20;
static const unsigned char USB3_PORT0_EN = 21;
static const unsigned char USB3_PORT1_EN = 24;
static const unsigned char HDD0_ATTACH = 26;
static const unsigned char HDD1_ATTACH = 27;
static const unsigned char PWR_LED_BLUE = 43;
static const unsigned char HDD0_EN = 44;
static const unsigned char HDD1_EN = 45;
static const unsigned char HDD0_LED_RED = 46;
static const unsigned char HDD1_LED_RED = 47;
static const unsigned char FAN_CTRL = 48;
static const unsigned char PWR_BTN = 49;
static const unsigned char RESET_BTN = 50;
static const unsigned char BUZZER_CTRL = 51;
static const unsigned char USB_COPY_BTN = 52;
static const unsigned char USB_OVER_CURRENT = 53;
static const unsigned char PWROFF_CTRL = 54;
static const unsigned char TEMPERATURE_INT = 55;

Most likely this is what we are looking for to power the 2 USB ports:

static const unsigned char USB3_PORT0_EN = 21;
static const unsigned char USB3_PORT1_EN = 24;

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2018 01:58AM by bodhi.

I'll write an initial DTS for this Thecus N2350 and upload it for testing.

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lordzahl,

Do you have a picture for this box that you can upload here? Is there a serial pinouts header?

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Hi bodhi,
Great that you found the GPIO definitions.

bodhi Wrote:
> Do you have a picture for this box that you can
> upload here? Is there a serial pinouts header?
I have linked an article with a picture in the first post.
But if still needed i can get pictures myself and upload them here directly.

It seems like J2 might be an unpopulated GPIO (20 pin)?
Cheers, Manuel

Hi Manuel,

I see I've missed that picture :) Looks like J1 is a 4-holes pinout? hope it is not a 4 solder buttons!

J2 looks like JTAG pinout (usually 20 pins).

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2018 03:09AM by bodhi.

hi bodhi,

Yes, J1 is a 4 hole pinout, which could be easily soldered and is used for the serial console by me at the moment. I just put some loose wires in these holes.
I'll attach a picture of the backside of the pcb to this post.

While I'm coding the DTS, I'd like you to try the kwboot again.

I can see why your kwboot was not successful with that error. Thecus u-boot is in SPI flash!

BootROM - 1.73

Booting from SPI flash

[    3.652367] 2 ofpart partitions found on MTD device spi1.0
[    3.657900] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "spi1.0":
[    3.662714] 0x000000000000-0x000000400000 : "U-Boot-img"
[    3.669677] 0x000000100000-0x000000400000 : "U-Boot-env"

Boot into stock OS, and

cat /proc/mtd

That mtd "U-Boot-img" is where u-boot is. So do a dump (assuming it is mtdx):

dd if=/dev/mtdx of=mtd_uboot bs=1024k conv=sync

And then run kwboot again with this file mtd_uboot.

kwboot  -t -B 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 -b mtd_uboot  -p

if that does not work, try

kwboot  -t -B 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 -b mtd_uboot  -p  -s 0 -q 1

BTW, you might need to try running kwboot many times until you can get a handshake with the box.

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2018 06:56AM by bodhi.

Hi bodhi,

Sure, can do:

N2350:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 20000000 00020000 "ubifs"
mtd1: 00400000 00010000 "U-Boot-img"
mtd2: 00300000 00010000 "U-Boot-env"
mtd3: 05885000 0001f000 "boot"
mtd4: 008f6000 0001f000 "etc"
mtd5: 1803b000 0001f000 "rom"
mtd6: 00706000 0001f000 "version"
N2350:~# ls
N2350:~# dd if=/dev/mtd1 of=mtd_uboot bs=1024k conv=sync
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
N2350:~# ls -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       4194304 Mar 18 20:40 mtd_uboot

scp't this on my laptop, and tried kwboot:

[kwboot]$ ../kwboot-x86_64  -t -B 115200 /dev/ttyACM0 -b mtd_uboot  -p
Sending boot message. Please reboot the target...\
Sending boot image...

BootROM - 1.73
 (Boot)
Booting from SPI flash


General initialization - Version: 1.0.0
AVS selection from EFUSE disabled (Skip reading EFUSE values)
Overriding default AVS value to: 0x23
Detected Device ID 6820
High speed PHY - Version: 2.0

Init Customer board board SerDes lanes topology details:
 | Lane # | Speed|    Type     |
 ------------------------------|
 |   0    |  0   |  SGMII0     |
 |   1    |  3   |  SATA0      |
 |   2    |  3   |  SATA1      |
 |   4    |  5   |  USB3 HOST0 |
 |   5    |  5   |  USB3 HOST1 |
 -------------------------------
High speed PHY - Ended Successfully
DDR4 Training Sequence - Ver TIP-0.23.(Sublib 0.8)0
  0 % [+xmodem: Protocol error

I got this only after several tries. So i guess the timing was right, but something else failed?

Hello,

@lordzahl: Yes I have serial cable. To be exact it is USB TTL converter:

[ 8708.644145] usb 2-2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60
[ 8708.644148] usb 2-2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 8708.644150] usb 2-2.1: Product: CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller
[ 8708.644152] usb 2-2.1: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
[ 8708.644153] usb 2-2.1: SerialNumber: 0001
[ 8708.706781] cp210x 2-2.1:1.0: cp210x converter detected
[ 8708.743441] usb 2-2.1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0

I tried to boot with kwboot and got the same error, no matter if "-s 0 -q 1" parameters were added or not:

root@ubuntu:~# kwboot -t -B 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 -b mtd_uboot -p -s 0 -q 1
Sending boot message. Please reboot the target...-
Sending boot image...

BootROM - 1.73
 (Boot)
Booting from SPI flash


General initialization - Version: 1.0.0
AVS selection from EFUSE disabled (Skip reading EFUSE values)
Overriding default AVS value to: 0x23
Detected Device ID 6820
High speed PHY - Version: 2.0

Init Customer board board SerDes lanes topology details:
 | Lane # | Speed|    Type     |
 ------------------------------|
 |   0    |  0   |  SGMII0     |
 |   1    |  3   |  SATA0      |
 |   2    |  3   |  SATA1      |
 |   4    |  5   |  USB3 HOST0 |
 |   5    |  5   |  USB3 HOST1 |
 -------------------------------
High speed PHY - Ended Successfully
DDR4 Training Sequence - Ver TIP-0.23.(Sublib 0.8)0
  0 % [+xmodem: Protocol error

@nailman,
Did you solder the wires or just temporaily connect them like lordzahl did?


@all,

That was actually some strange behavior, since we are kwbooting the same u-boot, but the output seems to be different.

BootROM - 1.73
 (Boot)
Booting from SPI flash

And the progress of image loading did not show after this:

Sending boot image...

So I think the handshake did not occur. Sometime this could be caused by the wire connections not stable. I have seen reports here about some member tried to hold the wires to the header during kwbooting and it seems to work more reliable! It could be that the xmodem protocol is more sensitive than the other normal serial protocol.

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Here is the initial DTB version for testing.

Copy the attached DTB to your USB rootfs /boot/dts/ folder.

Power up, interrupt serial console and set the envs (note that I've changed the usb_bootcmd to not loading uInitrd). We want to ignore that for now and see if the USB drive is powered up OK first.

setenv load_dtb_addr 0x1000000
setenv load_initrd_addr 0x2900000
setenv load_image_addr 0x02000000
setenv dtbfilename armada-385-thecus-n2350.dtb
setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs "console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 $mtdparts earlyprintk=serial"'
setenv usb_bootcmd 'echo Booting from USB ...; setenv fdt_skip_update yes; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_image_addr /boot/zImage; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_dtb_addr /boot/dts/$dtbfilename; run usb_set_bootargs; bootz $load_image_addr - $load_dtb_addr'
usb start
run usb_bootcmd

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Hi,

> So I think the handshake did not occur. Sometime
> this could be caused by the wire connections not
> stable. I have seen reports here about some member
> tried to hold the wires to the header during
> kwbooting and it seems to work more reliable! It
> could be that the xmodem protocol is more
> sensitive than the other normal serial protocol.

You might be right. I did try to hold the wires, but i did not get a (much) better result. Out of a few dozens tries i managed to get one time:

[kwboot]$ ../kwboot-x86_64  -t -B 115200 /dev/ttyACM0 -b mtd_uboot  -p 
Sending boot message. Please reboot the target...-
Sending boot image...
  0 % [+++++++++++++++++xmodem: Bad message

My serial console is actually realized with a teensy 3.0 mcu and a breadboard. Probably this makes it worse. Maybe i will solder a connector or wires to the pcb tomorrow.

lordzahl,

>

> [kwboot]$ ../kwboot-x86_64  -t -B 115200
> /dev/ttyACM0 -b mtd_uboot  -p 
> Sending boot message. Please reboot the
> target...-
> Sending boot image...
>   0 % [+++++++++++++++++xmodem: Bad message
>

This run is actually better. When this happen, immediately use the up arrow to recall the command and execute it again.

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Please see the DTB I've attached above for testing.

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> This run is actually better. When this happen,
> immediately use the up arrow to recall the command
> and execute it again.

I did that and it ended in the exact same message. So it seems it at least got into the right mode, but the data connection is still pretty bad?

Next up: Testing the DTB (thanks!!)
Using the 4.14 kernel from you:

BootROM - 1.73
Booting from SPI flash


General initialization - Version: 1.0.0
AVS selection from EFUSE disabled (Skip reading EFUSE values)
Overriding default AVS value to: 0x23
Detected Device ID 6820
High speed PHY - Version: 2.0

Init Customer board board SerDes lanes topology details:
 | Lane # | Speed|    Type     |
 ------------------------------|
 |   0    |  0   |  SGMII0     |
 |   1    |  3   |  SATA0      |
 |   2    |  3   |  SATA1      |
 |   4    |  5   |  USB3 HOST0 |
 |   5    |  5   |  USB3 HOST1 |
 -------------------------------
High speed PHY - Ended Successfully
DDR4 Training Sequence - Ver TIP-0.23.(Sublib 0.8)0
DDR4 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window 
DDR4 Training Sequence - Ended Successfully
BootROM: Image checksum verification PASSED

 __   __                      _ _
|  \/  | __ _ _ ____   _____| | |
| |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |
| |  | | (_| | |   \ V /  __/ | |
|_|  |_|\__,_|_|    \_/ \___|_|_|
         _   _     ____              _
        | | | |   | __ )  ___   ___ | |_ 
        | | | |___|  _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| 
        | |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ 
         \___/    |____/ \___/ \___/ \__| 
 ** LOADER **


U-Boot 2013.01 (Aug 09 2017 - 16:51:03) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p18

Board: A38x-Customer0-Thecus-N2350
SoC:   MV88F6820 Rev A0
       running 2 CPUs
CPU:   ARM Cortex A9 MPCore (Rev 1) LE
       CPU 0
       CPU    @ 1066 [MHz]
       L2     @ 800 [MHz]
       TClock @ 200 [MHz]
       DDR4    @ 800 [MHz]
       DDR4 32 Bit Width,FastPath Memory Access, DLB Enabled, ECC Disabled
DRAM:  1 GiB
NAND:  512 MiB
MMC:   mv_sdh: 0
SF: Detected MX25L3205D with page size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB
USB2.0 0: Host Mode
USB3.0 0: Host Mode
USB3.0 1: Host Mode

Map:   Code:			0x3fed0000:0x3ff959e4
       BSS:			0x3ffef104
       Stack:			0x3f9bff20
       Heap:			0x3f9c0000:0x3fed0000
       U-Boot Environment:	0x00100000:0x00110000 (SPI)

Board configuration detected:
Net:   
|  port  | Interface | PHY address  |
|--------|-----------|--------------|
| egiga0 |   SGMII   |     0x01     |
egiga0 [PRIME]
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  3  0
Marvell>> setenv load_dtb_addr 0x1000000
Marvell>> setenv load_initrd_addr 0x2900000
Marvell>> setenv load_image_addr 0x02000000
Marvell>> setenv dtbfilename armada-385-thecus-n2350.dtb
Marvell>> setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs "console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 $mtdparts earlyprintk=serial"'
Marvell>> setenv usb_bootcmd 'echo Booting from USB ...; setenv fdt_skip_update yes; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_image_addr /boot/zImage; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_dtb_addr /boot/dts/$dtbfilename; run usb_set_bootargs; bootz $load_image_addr - $load_dtb_addr'
Marvell>> usb start
(Re)start USB...
USB0:   Port (usbActive) : 0	Interface (usbType = 3) : Anson:xhci_usb_lowlevel_init--1--index=0
Anson:xhci_usb_lowlevel_init--2
Anson:Register 2000120 NbrPorts 2
USB XHCI 1.00
Anson:xhci_usb_lowlevel_init--3
scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
       scanning usb for ethernet devices... 0 Ethernet Device(s) found
Marvell>> run usb_bootcmd
Booting from USB ...
4141288 bytes read in 503 ms (7.9 MiB/s)
17815 bytes read in 663 ms (25.4 KiB/s)
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x01000000
   Loading Device Tree to 00ff8000, end 00fff596 ... OK

   Skipping Device Tree update ('fdt_skip_update' = yes)

Limit DDR size at 3GB due to power of 2 requirement of Address decoding

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.1-mvebu-tld-1 (root@tldDebianVM) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 25 00:32:53 PST 2017
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [414fc091] revision 1 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Thecus N2350
[    0.000000] bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] random: fast init done
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 17 pages/cpu @ef7c7000 s40716 r8192 d20724 u69632
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 260608
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=armada-nand:-(ubifs);spi_flash:0x00100000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env) earlyprintk=serial
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 1025948K/1048576K available (8192K kernel code, 722K rwdata, 2180K rodata, 1024K init, 337K bss, 22628K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 262144K highmem)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
[    0.000000]     fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xf0800000 - 0xff800000   ( 240 MB)
[    0.000000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf0000000   ( 768 MB)
[    0.000000]     pkmap   : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000   (   2 MB)
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000   (  14 MB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0900000   (9184 kB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xc0c00000 - 0xc0d00000   (1024 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xc0d00000 - 0xc0db4848   ( 723 kB)
[    0.000000]        .bss : 0xc0dbbf1c - 0xc0e103c4   ( 338 kB)
[    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=4 to nr_cpu_ids=2.
[    0.000000] 	Tasks RCU enabled.
[    0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=2
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[    0.000000] L2C-310 enabling early BRESP for Cortex-A9
[    0.000000] L2C-310 full line of zeros enabled for Cortex-A9
[    0.000000] L2C-310 D prefetch enabled, offset 1 lines
[    0.000000] L2C-310 dynamic clock gating enabled, standby mode enabled
[    0.000000] L2C-310 Coherent cache controller enabled, 16 ways, 1024 kB
[    0.000000] L2C-310 Coherent: CACHE_ID 0x410054c9, AUX_CTRL 0x56070001
[    0.000009] sched_clock: 64 bits at 533MHz, resolution 1ns, wraps every 2199023255551ns
[    0.008074] clocksource: arm_global_timer: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x7aed16d152, max_idle_ns: 440795225656 ns
[    0.019168] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 1ns
[    0.025381] Ignoring duplicate/late registration of read_current_timer delay
[    0.032491] clocksource: armada_370_xp_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 76450417870 ns
[    0.043939] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.048472] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 1066.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=5330000)
[    0.059134] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.063926] Security Framework initialized
[    0.068157] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.074832] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.082458] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.087587] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.125247] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100060
[    0.131594] mvebu-soc-id: MVEBU SoC ID=0x6820, Rev=0x4
[    0.136942] mvebu-pmsu: Initializing Power Management Service Unit
[    0.143273] Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[    0.185218] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.235290] Booting CPU 1
[    0.238194] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[    0.238281] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
[    0.248195] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (2132.00 BogoMIPS).
[    0.254607] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[    0.260039] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.266172] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant 9 rev 4
[    0.274174] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.284072] futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.290431] prandom: seed boundary self test passed
[    0.297906] prandom: 100 self tests passed
[    0.302072] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.308216] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.313465] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.321738] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[    0.325966] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    0.330124] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
[    0.338195] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
[    0.344253] mvebu-pmsu: CPU hotplug support is currently broken on Armada 38x: disabling
[    0.352416] mvebu-pmsu: CPU idle is currently broken on Armada 38x: disabling
[    0.415816] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.418804] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.423346] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.429062] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.434559] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.439994] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[    0.444616] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    0.450169] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arm_global_timer
[    0.509193] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[    0.513285] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.526086] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.530992] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.538159] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.544770] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[    0.551262] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.557273] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.563893] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.568609] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.574613] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.579382] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.584167] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.590929] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[    0.597725] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a9 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[    0.606787] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.612366] audit: type=2000 audit(0.579:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[    0.612624] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[    0.612651] Key type blacklist registered
[    0.612737] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=18 bucket_order=0
[    0.620207] zbud: loaded
[    0.631037] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.631050] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.631052] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.631062] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...
[    0.631066] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[    0.631222] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.631548] orangefs_debugfs_init: called with debug mask: :none: :0:
[    0.631654] orangefs_init: module version upstream loaded
[    0.635263] Key type asymmetric registered
[    0.635267] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[    0.635305] bounce: pool size: 64 pages
[    0.635344] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 247)
[    0.635349] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.635352] io scheduler deadline registered
[    0.635416] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    0.637011] armada-38x-pinctrl f1018000.pinctrl: registered pinctrl driver
[    0.639441] mvebu-pcie soc:pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[    0.639449] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x1000-0xfffff]
[    0.639455] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff]
[    0.639460] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[    0.639840] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[    0.639852] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[    0.639865] pci 0000:00:02.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[    0.639950] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
[    0.640050] PCI: bus2: Fast back to back transfers enabled
[    0.640081] pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[    0.640091] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI bridge to [bus 02]
[    0.640701] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver
[    0.700759] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell XOR (Descriptor Mode): ( xor cpy intr )
[    0.701032] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver
[    0.760741] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell XOR (Descriptor Mode): ( xor cpy intr )
[    0.821973] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    0.824543] console [ttyS0] disabled
[    0.859834] f1012000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 23, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A
[    0.868953] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    0.868953] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    0.876066] bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
[    0.876066] bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
[    0.886407] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl platform mode
[    0.895534] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: flags: 64bit ncq sntf led only pmp fbs pio slum part sxs 
[    0.905261] scsi host0: ahci-mvebu
[    0.909016] scsi host1: ahci-mvebu
[    0.912677] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio [mem 0xf10a8000-0xf10a9fff] port 0x100 irq 43
[    0.920675] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio [mem 0xf10a8000-0xf10a9fff] port 0x180 irq 43

Did it stop here? hang?

[    0.920675] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio [mem 0xf10a8000-0xf10a9fff] port 0x180 irq 43

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bodhi Wrote:
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> Did it stop here? hang?
>
>

> [    0.920675] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio [mem
> 0xf10a8000-0xf10a9fff] port 0x180 irq 43
>

Yes, it just stops/hangs. Nothing happens after that. Inputs have no result.
I tried a second time with the same result.

> Yes, it just stops/hangs. Nothing happens after
> that. Inputs have no result.
> I tried a second time with the same result.


OK! I did not have any SATA node in the DTS yet. Will upload another version in perhaps 8hrs or so.

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lordzahl Wrote:
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> > This run is actually better. When this happen,
> > immediately use the up arrow to recall the
> command
> > and execute it again.
>
> I did that and it ended in the exact same message.
> So it seems it at least got into the right mode,
> but the data connection is still pretty bad?

The bad Xmodem message occurs frequently with the Pogoplug V4. In some cases, it would take 20 tries to get a handshake. I've got reports that it took quite a few tries to get the WD My Cloud to handshake also.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2018 06:22PM by bodhi.

Here is a modified DTB version for testing.

Copy the attached DTB to your USB rootfs /boot/dts/ folder.

Power up, interrupt serial console and set the envs (note that I've changed the usb_bootcmd to not loading uInitrd). We want to ignore that for now and see if the USB drive is powered up OK first.

setenv load_dtb_addr 0x1000000
setenv load_initrd_addr 0x2900000
setenv load_image_addr 0x02000000
setenv dtbfilename armada-385-thecus-n2350.dtb
setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs "console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 $mtdparts earlyprintk=serial"'
setenv usb_bootcmd 'echo Booting from USB ...; setenv fdt_skip_update yes; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_image_addr /boot/zImage; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_dtb_addr /boot/dts/$dtbfilename; run usb_set_bootargs; bootz $load_image_addr - $load_dtb_addr'
usb start
run usb_bootcmd

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Hi bodhi,

> Here is a modified DTB version for testing.
I tried it, but it hangs at the same position (Log at end of post). I double checked afterwards by diffing the dtb against the old one, that i actually tested your modified version. Just to be sure.

I will give kwboot another try later today.
Cheers, Manuel

BootROM - 1.73
Booting from SPI flash


General initialization - Version: 1.0.0
AVS selection from EFUSE disabled (Skip reading EFUSE values)
Overriding default AVS value to: 0x23
Detected Device ID 6820
High speed PHY - Version: 2.0

Init Customer board board SerDes lanes topology details:
 | Lane # | Speed|    Type     |
 ------------------------------|
 |   0    |  0   |  SGMII0     |
 |   1    |  3   |  SATA0      |
 |   2    |  3   |  SATA1      |
 |   4    |  5   |  USB3 HOST0 |
 |   5    |  5   |  USB3 HOST1 |
 -------------------------------
High speed PHY - Ended Successfully
DDR4 Training Sequence - Ver TIP-0.23.(Sublib 0.8)0
DDR4 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window 
DDR4 Training Sequence - Ended Successfully
BootROM: Image checksum verification PASSED

 __   __                      _ _
|  \/  | __ _ _ ____   _____| | |
| |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |
| |  | | (_| | |   \ V /  __/ | |
|_|  |_|\__,_|_|    \_/ \___|_|_|
         _   _     ____              _
        | | | |   | __ )  ___   ___ | |_ 
        | | | |___|  _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| 
        | |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ 
         \___/    |____/ \___/ \___/ \__| 
 ** LOADER **


U-Boot 2013.01 (Aug 09 2017 - 16:51:03) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p18

Board: A38x-Customer0-Thecus-N2350
SoC:   MV88F6820 Rev A0
       running 2 CPUs
CPU:   ARM Cortex A9 MPCore (Rev 1) LE
       CPU 0
       CPU    @ 1066 [MHz]
       L2     @ 800 [MHz]
       TClock @ 200 [MHz]
       DDR4    @ 800 [MHz]
       DDR4 32 Bit Width,FastPath Memory Access, DLB Enabled, ECC Disabled
DRAM:  1 GiB
NAND:  512 MiB
MMC:   mv_sdh: 0
SF: Detected MX25L3205D with page size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB
USB2.0 0: Host Mode
USB3.0 0: Host Mode
USB3.0 1: Host Mode

Map:   Code:			0x3fed0000:0x3ff959e4
       BSS:			0x3ffef104
       Stack:			0x3f9bff20
       Heap:			0x3f9c0000:0x3fed0000
       U-Boot Environment:	0x00100000:0x00110000 (SPI)

Board configuration detected:
Net:   
|  port  | Interface | PHY address  |
|--------|-----------|--------------|
| egiga0 |   SGMII   |     0x01     |
egiga0 [PRIME]
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  3  2  0 
Marvell>> setenv load_dtb_addr 0x1000000
Marvell>> setenv load_initrd_addr 0x2900000
Marvell>> setenv load_image_addr 0x02000000
Marvell>> setenv dtbfilename armada-385-thecus-n2350.dtb
Marvell>> setenv usb_set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs "console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 $mtdparts earlyprintk=serial"'
Marvell>> setenv usb_bootcmd 'echo Booting from USB ...; setenv fdt_skip_update yes; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_image_addr /boot/zImage; ext2load usb 0:1 $load_dtb_addr /boot/dts/$dtbfilename; run usb_set_bootargs; bootz $load_image_addr - $load_dtb_addr'
Marvell>> usb start
(Re)start USB...
USB0:   Port (usbActive) : 0	Interface (usbType = 3) : Anson:xhci_usb_lowlevel_init--1--index=0
Anson:xhci_usb_lowlevel_init--2
Anson:Register 2000120 NbrPorts 2
USB XHCI 1.00
Anson:xhci_usb_lowlevel_init--3
scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
       scanning usb for ethernet devices... 0 Ethernet Device(s) found
Marvell>> run usb_bootcmd
Booting from USB ...
4141288 bytes read in 503 ms (7.9 MiB/s)
18770 bytes read in 663 ms (27.3 KiB/s)
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x01000000
   Loading Device Tree to 00ff8000, end 00fff951 ... OK

   Skipping Device Tree update ('fdt_skip_update' = yes)

Limit DDR size at 3GB due to power of 2 requirement of Address decoding

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.1-mvebu-tld-1 (root@tldDebianVM) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 25 00:32:53 PST 2017
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [414fc091] revision 1 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Thecus N2350
[    0.000000] bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] random: fast init done
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 17 pages/cpu @ef7c6000 s40716 r8192 d20724 u69632
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 260608
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=armada-nand:-(ubifs);spi_flash:0x00100000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env) earlyprintk=serial
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 1025944K/1048576K available (8192K kernel code, 722K rwdata, 2180K rodata, 1024K init, 337K bss, 22632K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 262144K highmem)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]     vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
[    0.000000]     fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
[    0.000000]     vmalloc : 0xf0800000 - 0xff800000   ( 240 MB)
[    0.000000]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf0000000   ( 768 MB)
[    0.000000]     pkmap   : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000   (   2 MB)
[    0.000000]     modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000   (  14 MB)
[    0.000000]       .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0900000   (9184 kB)
[    0.000000]       .init : 0xc0c00000 - 0xc0d00000   (1024 kB)
[    0.000000]       .data : 0xc0d00000 - 0xc0db4848   ( 723 kB)
[    0.000000]        .bss : 0xc0dbbf1c - 0xc0e103c4   ( 338 kB)
[    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=4 to nr_cpu_ids=2.
[    0.000000] 	Tasks RCU enabled.
[    0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=2
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[    0.000000] L2C-310 enabling early BRESP for Cortex-A9
[    0.000000] L2C-310 full line of zeros enabled for Cortex-A9
[    0.000000] L2C-310 D prefetch enabled, offset 1 lines
[    0.000000] L2C-310 dynamic clock gating enabled, standby mode enabled
[    0.000000] L2C-310 Coherent cache controller enabled, 16 ways, 1024 kB
[    0.000000] L2C-310 Coherent: CACHE_ID 0x410054c9, AUX_CTRL 0x56070001
[    0.000009] sched_clock: 64 bits at 533MHz, resolution 1ns, wraps every 2199023255551ns
[    0.008074] clocksource: arm_global_timer: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x7aed16d152, max_idle_ns: 440795225656 ns
[    0.019168] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 1ns
[    0.025379] Ignoring duplicate/late registration of read_current_timer delay
[    0.032488] clocksource: armada_370_xp_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 76450417870 ns
[    0.043960] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.048493] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 1066.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=5330000)
[    0.059155] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.063944] Security Framework initialized
[    0.068175] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.074850] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.082470] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.087599] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.125247] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100060
[    0.131594] mvebu-soc-id: MVEBU SoC ID=0x6820, Rev=0x4
[    0.136942] mvebu-pmsu: Initializing Power Management Service Unit
[    0.143275] Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[    0.185217] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.235289] Booting CPU 1
[    0.238193] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[    0.238279] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
[    0.248192] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (2132.00 BogoMIPS).
[    0.254604] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[    0.260037] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.266309] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant 9 rev 4
[    0.274314] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.284212] futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.290579] prandom: seed boundary self test passed
[    0.298054] prandom: 100 self tests passed
[    0.302220] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.308360] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.313610] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.321886] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[    0.326118] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    0.330274] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
[    0.338344] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
[    0.344402] mvebu-pmsu: CPU hotplug support is currently broken on Armada 38x: disabling
[    0.352565] mvebu-pmsu: CPU idle is currently broken on Armada 38x: disabling
[    0.386662] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.389881] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.395731] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.401363] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.406978] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.412659] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[    0.417512] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    0.423382] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arm_global_timer
[    0.482389] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[    0.486502] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.501418] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.506456] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.513691] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.520276] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[    0.526795] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.532804] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.539444] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.564229] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.570210] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.575024] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.579794] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.586558] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[    0.593347] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a9 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[    0.602415] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.608251] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[    0.612785] Key type blacklist registered
[    0.616909] audit: type=2000 audit(0.569:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[    0.616983] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=18 bucket_order=0
[    0.624739] zbud: loaded
[    0.635426] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.640550] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.644844] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.648931] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...
[    0.655710] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[    0.662281] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.669742] orangefs_debugfs_init: called with debug mask: :none: :0:
[    0.676364] orangefs_init: module version upstream loaded
[    0.684748] Key type asymmetric registered
[    0.688915] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[    0.693929] bounce: pool size: 64 pages
[    0.697882] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 247)
[    0.705349] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.709341] io scheduler deadline registered
[    0.713755] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    0.720178] armada-38x-pinctrl f1018000.pinctrl: registered pinctrl driver
[    0.729404] mvebu-pcie soc:pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[    0.735415] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x1000-0xfffff]
[    0.741743] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff]
[    0.748688] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[    0.754641] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[    0.760286] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[    0.768370] pci 0000:00:02.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[    0.776530] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
[    0.782185] PCI: bus2: Fast back to back transfers enabled
[    0.787778] pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[    0.792815] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI bridge to [bus 02]
[    0.798421] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver
[    0.863956] mv_xor f1060800.xor: Marvell XOR (Descriptor Mode): ( xor cpy intr )
[    0.871574] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell shared XOR driver
[    0.933950] mv_xor f1060900.xor: Marvell XOR (Descriptor Mode): ( xor cpy intr )
[    0.979241] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    0.987825] console [ttyS0] disabled
[    1.012273] f1012000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 23, base_baud = 12500000) is a 16550A
[    1.021343] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    1.021343] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    1.028619] bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
[    1.028619] bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
[    1.038415] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 6 Gbps 0x3 impl platform mode
[    1.047535] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: flags: 64bit ncq sntf led only pmp fbs pio slum part sxs 
[    1.057022] scsi host0: ahci-mvebu
[    1.060705] scsi host1: ahci-mvebu
[    1.064293] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio [mem 0xf10a8000-0xf10a9fff] port 0x100 irq 43
[    1.072253] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio [mem 0xf10a8000-0xf10a9fff] port 0x180 irq 43

Manuel

Here is the DTS source. Perhaps you might be able to spot something I did was wrong.

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Manuel,

Try removing the HDDs and boot with USB only.

And I am eager to see if you can try kwboot again.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/2018 02:28AM by bodhi.

Thanks for sharing the DTS. I will take a look this evening.
I have no HDDs attached at the moment. Only the USB Stick.

Couldn't wait and took a look into the dts. In the original boot log (with stock everything) the next lines are about nand flash.

[    3.550713] armada-nand f10d0000.nand: Initialize HAL based NFC in 8bit mode with DMA Disabled using BCH 4bit ECC
[    3.565269] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0xdc (Hynix NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit), 512MiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64

I then compared the nand flash sections of your dts and the dts from gpl sources arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-385-db.dts
gpl source:

			spi1: spi@10680 {
				status = "okay";
				pinctrl-0 = <&spi1_pins>;
				pinctrl-names = "defaults";
				spi-flash@0 {
					#address-cells = <1>;
					#size-cells = <0>;
					compatible = "mx25l3205d";
					reg = <0>; /* Chip select 0 */
					spi-max-frequency = <108000000>;
					spi-cpha;

					mtd1@00000000 {
						label = "U-Boot-img";
						reg = <0x00000000 0x00100000>;
					};

					mtd2@00100000 {
						label = "U-Boot-env";
						reg = <0x00100000 0x00010000>;
					};
				};
			};

			/*
			 * 1GB Flash via NFC NAND controller
			 * should be disabled when the board boots
			 * from SPI flash, since NFC shares the same
			 * pins with SPI0 and requires SLM-1358 jumper.
			 * However the u-boot DTB parser will
			 * handle this situation and disable/remove
			 * unnessesary devices according to board
			 * boot-up configuration.
			 */
			nfc: nand@d0000 {
				status = "okay";
				#address-cells = <1>;
				#size-cells = <1>;
				nfc,nfc-mode  = "normal";	/* normal or ganged */
				nfc,nfc-dma   = <0>;		/* 0 for no, 1 for dma */
				nfc,nfc-width = <8>;
				nfc,ecc-type  = <1>;		/* 4 bit */
				nfc,num-cs    = <0>;

				mtd0@00000000 {
					label = "ubifs";
					reg = <0x00000000 0x20000000>;
				};

From the commentary it seems, that the spi flash is on spi0 instead of spi1 and the spi flash uses a different controller than you specified (compatible = "mx25l3205d";)?
Also the NAND Flash seems to be connected by a NFC Controller and carries other option "nfc,...".

Compare to the parts of your dts:

			flash@d0000 {
				status = "okay";
				num-cs = <1>;
				marvell,nand-keep-config;
				marvell,nand-enable-arbiter;
				nand-on-flash-bbt;
				nand-ecc-strength = <4>;
				nand-ecc-step-size = <512>;

				partition@0 {
					label = "U-Boot";
					reg = <0 0x800000>;
				};
				partition@800000 {
					label = "Linux";
					reg = <0x800000 0x800000>;
				};
				partition@1000000 {
					label = "Filesystem";
					reg = <0x1000000 0x3f000000>;
				};
			};

&spi0 {
	status = "okay";

	spi-flash@0 {
		#address-cells = <1>;
		#size-cells = <1>;
		compatible = "w25q32", "jedec,spi-nor";
		reg = <0>; /* Chip select 0 */
		spi-max-frequency = <108000000>;
	};
};

Maybe some configuration error between these two causes the hang. Is there a way to get more verbose output in the kernel log?
Maybe i can answer some of these question myself tonight.
Cheers, Manuel



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/2018 03:02AM by lordzahl.