The Linux 6.18.46 forward-port boots on the panel through our ported drivers,
verified on the serial console: earlycon, arch timer (BogoMIPS calibrated), our
clk-rv1106 CRU, pinctrl, and the mainline 8250 bound to uart2 clocked by our CRU
(ttyS2 16550A), then rootfs mount.
Two DT fixes got it past "Starting kernel":
- fdt placed high (load=0x08000000) so the bloated multi_v7 zImage (~20 MiB
decompressed) stops overrunning the DTB at 0xc00000 (was: r2=0, "invalid dtb").
- added the rockchip,rv1106-grf-cru node (grf-clock-controller child of grf) so
clk-rv1106's grf_ctx isn't NULL (was: panic in rockchip_clk_register_branches).
Console pinned to 115200 (readable on the CP2102 bench adapter; prod uses 1.5M).
The boot-image format and the A/B _b-slot safe-test method (which auto-reverted to
_a on every failed attempt) are in docs/m2-boot-on-c8a3.md. M3 next: lean defconfig
+ dw_mmc DT + our Buildroot userspace rebuilt on 6.18.
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M1 is complete (clk + pinctrl + mach compile clean); this reaches M2's build
milestone. multi_v7_defconfig + configs/m2-earlycon.fragment builds an 11.8 MB
zImage with clk-rv1106.o and pinctrl-rockchip.o (our rv1106 data) compiled into
the full tree — no rv1106 warnings. dts/rv1106-warden-m2.dts (CPU, GIC-400, arch
timer, 256 MiB RAM, GRF, the CRU, uart2 as snps,dw-apb-uart) compiles clean at
W=1 with earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff4c0000. Reproducible via build-m2.sh.
Boot is the next step and is on-hardware/attended: package zImage + dtb, load on
a bench unit with a recovery net, watch for the earlycon "it's alive". PORT-VERIFY
before trusting a boot: DDR size/base, the CPU clock mux, console baud.
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