Trying to get the git kernel running on our in-house board and have an 
unpleasant crash somewhere between kernel start and console output, with code 
jumping off to 0xffff000c.

This is using u-boot v2010.03 and kernel based on davinci master at 
5954dd1d2cab4b378e22256edbfe132bf4f82f22

Sympoms are; this is the last output I get on the console:

  Starting kernel ...

  Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

If I now halt the CPU over JTAG it tells me:

 target halted in ARM state due to debug-request, current mode: Abort
 cpsr: 0x200000d7 pc: 0xffff000c
 MMU: enabled, D-Cache: enabled, I-Cache: enabled

I tried both the vanilla EVM versions of bootloader and kernel, and in-house 
modified (for different pinmuxing, board file etc). Both combinations boot OK 
on the DM355EVM, both crash in the same way on our in-house board.
This in-house board and many like it were previously running a MontaVista 
(DM355 Beta SDK) based setup, so is capable of running linux and the board 
design should be sound.

There is no UBL on the board at present: I am doing initial setup and loading 
u-boot over JTAG with OpenOCD.

I stepped through the code enough to determine that the uncompress, relocate 
and jump to kernel (and several instructions after) seems OK.

I am looking into the ARM ETM/ETB + OpenOCD hoping that could give me a trace 
of how I end up at 0xffff000c but not having any joy with that so far.

Inspiration for approaches to debugging this problem would be much appreciated, 
running low on ideas.

Thanks,

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