Re: 4.13 (and probably all recent) kernels refuse to boot on one Nokia N950, work or another

[Pavel Machek]

On Thu 2017-10-26 11:31:15, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:13:26AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Wed 2017-10-25 14:28:07, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > * Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> [171025 13:36]:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > ...hardware should be identical. 3.5.3-nemo kernel seems to work on
> > > > both. 4.13-rc2 with display and clock patches boots on phone "S", but
> > > > does not on phone "P"; nothing nothing is received on serial port.
> > > > 
> > > > There is some difference in the bootloaders: S's bootloader provides
> > > > lots of debug info, P's is silent. R&D settings do _not_ have
> > > > influence on bootloader. We know P's serial works, as 3.5.3 kernel
> > > > prints "Uncompressing linux...booting" there.
> > > > 
> > > > I'll need to return "S" phone and serial cable tommorow. If you have
> > > > any ideas, let me know.
> > > 
> > > If you get nothing out of the uart, chances are the pins are
> > > not muxed for the uart in nolo and maybe kernel dts is missing the
> > > pinctrl entries for uart?
> > > 
> > > Also try booting with mem=512M@0x80000000 or 256M or 768M. Maybe the
> > > memory is different size or partially broken?
> > 
> > Uhuh. It looks like "P" nokia really wants initrd, otherwise it will
> > not boot.
> > 
> > I got "uncompressing Linux 4.13" on serial console now, debug LEDs
> > blinking, and if I use a flashlight, I see output on the screen, too.
> > 
> > (What do I need to do to get the backlight working?)
> 
> Glad you got it working :) For backlight you can add this
> in drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c:
> 
> add the following code at the end of dsicm_probe:

You did not actually include code to paste into panel-dsi-cm, can you
try a again?

Thanks a lot,
								Pavel

> -----------------------------------------------------------
> mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
> mutex_lock(&ddata->lock);
> ddata->in->ops.dsi->bus_lock(ddata->in);
> r = dsicm_wake_up(ddata);
> if (!r)
>     r = dsicm_dcs_write_1(ddata, DCS_BRIGHTNESS, 100);
> ddata->in->ops.dsi->bus_unlock(ddata->in);
> mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> -- Sebastian



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