I come bearing good news!
So it's all working now. I've got the kernel running and userspace apps working. My unoptimized boottime from power on to the point that /sbin/init runs the first rc script looks to be around 6 seconds. Yay! Thanks to all of you for all the hard work and help. If any of you come to Chennai, India, please drop me an email first, it'd be my pleasure to buy you a shot of Chennai's finest coconut based beverage. :-)
I'm not sure what was wrong with my 2.6.8.1 kernel. I ended up using a 2.6.10 kernel. I tried to follow Ron's suggestion about no vga console. I was trying to get rid of CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE but for some reason I just coudn't. scripts/kconfig/conf seems to always reenable CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE even when I manually edited the .config. I switched to a 2.6.10 bzImage and that worked first bat so I'm happy. My 2.6.8.1 was patched so it might have been messed up.
Now that I've got here, perhaps I could go back and fix the sdram autosizing problem. I was also wondering about V2, is there something I could help with with respect to the geode in V2?
Thanks again!
--- "Ronald G. Minnich" rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
are you building the kernel with ONLY serial console, and not vga console?
ron
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