On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:37:02PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> A customer of mine has a PPC405 system, which was based upon the
> Embedded Planet design. It runs U-boot 0.4.0, and the system currently
> ships with a kernel based upon Timesys 2.4.18.
>
> We are in the process of upgrading to 2.6.11. (linus, not timesys. We
> see no value add from timesys)
>
> The major stumbling block was using boot/simple/{head,relocate}.S,
> and the inftrees.c. For reasons we do not understand, the system would
> fail in huft_build() when (setting up for) decompressing. We traced
> through this using our bdi2000, after failing with puts() additions.
If you are booting off of U-boot, why are you trying to boot a
zImage? You should be booting a uImage which doesn't use the
bootwrapper glue code in arch/ppc/boot/. Load the right image
and you will avoid all of this.
-Matt
