[Voyage-linux] Voyage 0.4.1 on Alix board

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Mathias,

Glad that you have been testing this but I can tell you this is the 
known issue.

Voyage 0.4.1 kernel has in-kernel, geode-specific codes that enables the 
mfgpt (multi-purpose general function timer), which is required for the 
watchdog driver.  The code works on Alix1C board.  However, the same 
piece of code does not work on Alix2B and 3B.  This problem has been 
reported to Pascal in PCEngines, and we concluded that it is the BIOS 
issue that some of the chipset features are not set correctly.  You may 
also know that the TinyBIOS in alix2b and 3b are not fully ready yet.  
So we have to wait until the BIOS is ready, or using Voyage 0.4.0, but 
you will not having watchdog feature.

Regards,
Punky



Mathias Bavay wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've just been trying to install Voyage 0.4.1 on a brand new Alix board... I 
> say "trying" because the boot goes all right until it reaches:
>
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
> Freeing initrd memory: 1916k freed
>
> And then, it stops... Nothing more, I've been trying to connect by ethernet to 
> no avail.
>
> I am using a 256 Mo compact flash card, the card has been prepared using 
> the "update" script on a Mandriva Linux computer and I am using a serial 
> console (as configured in during the installation). The board is an alix 2b3 
> (see http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2b3.htm).
>
> If anybody has the slightest idea on what is going wrong, it would be very 
> helpful!
> Thanks,
>
> Mathias Bavay
>
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