Philip Blundell writes:
> >2.3.19-rmk1 built with the cross-compiler still utterly fails to boot -- I
> >don't even get as far as 'Uncompressing Linux...'. Any suggestions on
> >what might be going on?
>
> Not really. I had some strange problem with recent 2.3 kernels that seemed to
> go away when I added a NOP to the front of head-armv.S, though I didn't debug
> it any further. I know at least one other person has reported that 2.3.19
> fails to boot when 2.3.18 was OK. It's weird.
I have not had any problems with 2.3.19 failing to boot. There was a problem with
NOPs and the positioning of code in head-armv.S, but that is now fixed. Permanently.
(usual disclaimers apply, free software, no warranty and all that).
> You could try enabling the `low-level debugging' stuff, sprinkling calls to it
> through the early initialisation code and seeing if you can work out where it
> crashes. If you currently use a zImage then you could see if uncompressed
> kernels are any better to eliminate one potential point of failure.
Indeed. If you are seeing the 'Uncompressing Linux... done Now booting kernel'
messages, then the zImage is probably not the problem, and you should be better
off using the zImage method - at least you can have reasonable confidence that
the kernel image in memory is complete and whole.
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