On Thursday 21 August 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Steven A. Falco wrote: > > I would like to switch over to using a uImage rather than the > > cuboot.uImage. > > Can you actually boot a plain uImage from U-Boot?
Sure. We did this all the time in arch/ppc. Now in arch/powerpc all you need is an device-tree enabled U-Boot version. This is standard for most targets since a few months. > I've just gave it a try. While arch/powerpc/boot/cuImage.sequoia boots > fine, > > after `make uImage', I get arch/powerpc/boot/uImage, but it doesn't boot: > | ## Booting image at 00100000 ... > | Image Name: Linux-2.6.27-rc4-dirty > | Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) > | Data Size: 1398827 Bytes = 1.3 MB > | Load Address: 00000000 > | Entry Point: 00000000 > | Verifying Checksum ... OK > | Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Error: inflate() returned -3 > | GUNZIP ERROR - must RESET board to recover Try a higher load address for the kernel. 4MB is a good value. > | U-Boot 1.2.0-gc0c292b2 (Jun 5 2007 - 07:16:12) Ups. This is most likely too old and can't boot arch/powerpc uImage files. Best regards, Stefan ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
