I went back to the kernel sources that were used to build our legacy 2.6.38 and indeed there is a proprietary BSP source file which I merged into a vanilla 2.6.38 tree and now it works. From here I can start bisecting with increasing kernel versions.
Thank you for your support everybody, Peter Am 25.06.2014 um 20:21 schrieb Wolfgang Denk <[email protected]>: > Dear Peter, > > In message <[email protected]> you wrote: >> >> Sure. The result is >> >> INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x576ac0) overlaps the address of the >> wrapper(0x400000) >> INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x600000) > > I don;t know what exactly you are doing here, but you definitely have > a serious problem here. I totally agree :) > Can you try and build the kernel with a > simple, known to be workign kernel configuration without any such > fancy features enabled? > >> Image Name: Linux-3.10.42 >> Created: Wed Jun 25 15:45:54 2014 >> Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) >> Data Size: 2863198 Bytes = 2796.09 kB = 2.73 MB >> Load Address: 00000000 >> Entry Point: 00000000 >> >> I load that kernel via TFTP to address 0x600000 (is that ok or is it >> supposed not to overlap with the wrapper?) > > Note that these "INFO:" messages are note printed by U-Boot, but by > Linux kernel code (arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper) which should not be > there at all for a plain Linux kernel image. So your problem appears > not to be in U-Boot land, but somewhere in how you configure and build > the Linux kernel, probably as a result of enabling non-trivial kernel > options. > > My recommendation is realy to get rid of all such fancy stuff and get > a plain stupid Linux kernel image working first (i.e. without any of > this wrapper stuff) before to venture out into such areas. > > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] > "Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing." - G. Steinem _______________________________________________ eldk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/eldk
