I just recognized that gzip does his job right.
But objcopy of all binutils > 2.16.1 has problems during binary copy:
powerpc-linux-objcopy -O binary vmlinux arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin
The vmlinux file does look good (what i can see with vi) but the
generated vmlinux.bin file is strange. Windows machines say that the
vmlinux.bin file is > then 3GByte, but linux says 1,5Mbyte. But, I can't
open it with vi...
Anywhay i think binutils > 2.16.1 has some problems with ppc.
Does anyone else use buildroot for ppc405 platform and solved the
problems with actual binutils versions?
cheers!
robert
Robert Zach wrote:
hi list!
I am using the xilinx git tree with the included bootstrap loader.
Everthing works fine when i use binutils-2.16.1-gcc-3.4.6-uClibc-0.9.29.
But when useing binutils-2.18.50-gcc-4.2.0-uClibc-0.9.29 (generated
with buildroot) i get the following problem:
At the end of the kernel build process the vmlinux image gets
compressed (for the bootstrap loader).
something like:
gzip -f -9 < arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin >
arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.gz.$$
when i compiled the kernel with
binutils-2.16.1-gcc-3.4.6-uClibc-0.9.29 the resulting image size is
smaller then the original and everything works (the bootstrap loader
uncompresses, the kernel boots, ..)
But when using the binutils-2.18.50-gcc-4.2.0-uClibc-0.9.29
cross-toolchain i get the following:
du arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin
1264 arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin
gzip -f -9 < arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin >
arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.gz.$$
du arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.gz.$$
3640 arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.gz
The resulting huge zImage.elf file does not work (the bootstraploader
stops somewhere early).
Its the same for all other toolchains i tryed using binutils > 2.16.
what does gzip do?
I use the following version
gzip --version
gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
Does anybody know this problem?
any suggestions for a solution.
thanks in advanced!
greets!
robert
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