Ok I succeed in booting... but using bcmImageBuilder, cmplzma and mksquashfs from broadcom
now the boot process stops with a kernel panic 
CFE version 1.0.37-0.7 for BCM96348 (32bit,SP,BE)
Build Date: .- 10.? 21 09:34:25 CST 2005 (root@hp)
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Broadcom Corporation.
Initializing Arena.
Initializing Devices.
100 MB Full-Duplex (auto-neg)
CPU type 0x29107: 256MHz, Bus: 128MHz, Ref: 32MHz
Total memory used by CFE: 0x80401000 - 0x80523030 (1187888)
Initialized Data: 0x8041B0E0 - 0x8041C9B0 (6352)
BSS Area: 0x8041C9B0 - 0x80421030 (18048)
Local Heap: 0x80421030 - 0x80521030 (1048576)
Stack Area: 0x80521030 - 0x80523030 (8192)
Text (code) segment: 0x80401000 - 0x8041B0D8 (106712)
Boot area (physical): 0x00524000 - 0x00564000
Relocation Factor: I:00000000 - D:00000000
Board IP address : 192.168.2.1:ffffff00
Host IP address : 192.168.2.100
Gateway IP address :
Run from flash/host (f/h) : f
Default host run file name : vmlinux
Default host flash file name : bcm963xx_fs_kernel
Boot delay (0-9 seconds) : 5
Board Id Name : 96348GW
Psi size in KB : 24
Number of MAC Addresses (1-32) : 12
Base MAC Address : 00:16:38:xx:xx:xx
Ethernet PHY Type : Internal
Memory size in MB : 16
*** Press any key to stop auto run (5 seconds) ***
Auto run second count down: 0
Code Address: 0x80010000, Entry Address: 0x80274000
Decompression OK!
Entry at 0x80274000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80274000
Linux version 2.6.19.2 (aurelbu@home) (gcc version 4.1.2) #5 Sun Apr 15 21:28:34 CEST 2007
Broadcom BCM963xx prom init
Boot loader is : CFE
CPU revision is: 00029107
Broadcom BCM963xx MPI
mpi: No Card is in the PCMCIA slot
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 00fa0000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 3969
Kernel command line:
bcm963xx: enabling icache and dcache...
Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 8kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (19 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (31 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (31 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (30 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 64 (order: 6, 256 bytes)
calculating r4koff... 0007d000(512000)
CPU frequency 256.00 MHz
Using 128.000 MHz high precision timer.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Memory: 13080k/16000k available (1868k kernel code, 2920k reserved, 575k data, 108k init, 0k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 512 bind 256)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(946684800.200:1): initialized
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) (C) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
bcm963xx_serial driver v2.0
BCM963xx flash init: 0x1fc00000 0x00400000
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: Swapping erase regions for broken CFI table.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x400000 at 0x1fc00000
Searching for RedBoot partition table in Physically mapped flash at offset 0x3f0000
No RedBoot partition table detected in Physically mapped flash
Creating 0 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (125 buckets, 1000 max) - 240 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Bridge firewalling registered
VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(0,0)
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
1 - how can I make trx works with my board?
2 - Any Idea for the kernel panic?
Any help is welcome ... ;-)
(Last edited by aurelbu on 16 Apr 2007, 22:32)
