RadekFisera wrote:
When I program the bin file to the flash (at 0xbfc00000) and run from this address the bootloader always hangs at 0xbfc0054c (romExcHandle in start.S). I can debug the code via BDI2000 and therefore I see that the code fails at the begining of board_init_f function where the rellocation to RAM is performed.
It seems relocated data corrupted. What version of U-Boot do you use? This relocation problem was an outstanding bug, but fixed in 1.3.0. Please try >1.3.0. Quick workarounds also available. See ML archives.
I have some troubles also with remote debugging via gdb. I always receive the SIGABRT when the debug pointer reaches the first instruction in start.S.
# ${CROSS_COMPILE}gdb /var/tmp/builds/u-boot GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.21_3rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "--host=i386-redhat-linux --target=mips-linux". The target architecture is set automatically (currently mips) .. (gdb) set endian little The target is assumed to be little endian (gdb) target remote bdi2000:2001 Remote debugging using bdi2000:2001 _start () at start.S:41 41 RVECENT(reset,0) /* U-boot entry point */ Current language: auto; currently asm (gdb) stepi
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. reset () at start.S:211 211 mtc0 zero, CP0_WATCHLO
I can set breakpoint however it is not reached although it is set in the code before the function board_init_f. I can see the message on the BDI2000 telnet session window: *** TARGET: all hardware breakpoints in use I tried to clear all breakpoints after each program stop but it didn't help.
I'm not familiar with gdb very much, but it seems gdb could not re- write ROM. This indicates gdb was going to use software breakpoint. Please note what you/we are going to debug, is ROM code, not RAM. Please use hardware breakpoint, instead.
Shinya