[Macchiato] Latest debian + UEFI binaries for mcbin single shot?

[Sumit Semwal]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 12:22, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 09:44, Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 12:10, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 17:55, Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > So I didn't get a response here, but did manage to build the UEFI with
> > > > 18.06 branch, and install debian on an SSD using mini.iso from today.
> > > > The installation completes ok, it starts to boot from the SSD, and
> > > > then freezes at:
> > > >
> > > > Loading Linux 4.17.0-1-arm64 ...
> > > > Loading initial ramdisk ...
> > > > [    0.602314] hw perfevents: unable to count PMU IRQs
> > > > [    2.294892] armada8k-pcie f2600000.pcie: phy link never came up
> > > > [    2.300855] armada8k-pcie f2600000.pcie: Link not up after reconfiguration
> > > >
> > > > I thought this was fixed in Jan as per Riku [1], but I'm not sure why
> > > > I see this with the latest mainline. Any hints will be great,
> > >
> > > Probably a differnet issue, since the installer went through. The
> > > kernel/device tree has been adding new clocks, I suspect there is a
> > > mismatch. You might want to try with kernel command line option
> > > clk_ignore_unused so kernel doesn't try to switch off "unused" clocks.
> > >
> > Thanks for your reply, Riku! I will try the idea you gave.
> >
> > So I wasn't able to install with the mini installer from 10th aug
> > (with the same error), but the 12th Aug one went through - is it
> > possible that the kernel used in 12th aug installer is 'newer' than
> > the one that got installed on the system? If so, is there an easy way
> > to update the installed kernel?
>
> That seems unlikely, the kernel build hesn't changed recently:
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux
>
> What is probably the difference is the installer has a limited set of
> kernel modules, while the installed system has all kernel modules. The
> kernel hangs then in one of the optional modules.

Your suggestion of clk_ignore_unused seems to work, and I can boot to
console. Funnily, the same 12th Aug installer, now seems to get stuck
at the same point!

Has anyone installed the latest kernel and booted? 4.17.0-1 seems to
be the version I have.

Best,
Sumit.