Hello,
I have a custom board, working with C6A8168 - no problems. On some boards we have tested DM8168 processors and we have problem with Linux booting. The boards with DM8168 hangs up very early during Linux boot:
U-Boot 2010.06 (Jul 19 2012 - 20:47:27)
TI8168-GP rev 1.1
ARM clk: 987MHz
DDR clk: 796MHz
I2C: ready
DRAM: 2 GiB
NAND: HW ECC Hamming Code selected
512 MiB
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Net: Detected MACID:5c:6b:32:ea:af:b4
Ethernet PHY: GENERIC @ 0x01
DaVinci EMAC
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x280000
2621440 bytes read: OK
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x6c0000, size 0x800000
8388608 bytes read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 81000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.37
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2413644 Bytes = 2.3 MiB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
That's it - Linux stops booting here (everything is set correctly, because occasionally Linux boots up and then everything works ok, even memory test passes). I can see, the Linux sets up GPIOs every time (LED on one of GPIOs switches on), but it doesn't go much further. Looks like Linux always stops at a same place.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
- Robert