From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: daniel@caiaq.de (Daniel Mack) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:36:32 +0200 Subject: iMX31 LogicPD LiteKit Kernel 2.6.33.2 In-Reply-To: References: <20100415075831.GL30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de> Message-ID: <20100416083632.GF30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 03:08:41PM -0600, Badguy Badguy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Daniel Mack wrote: > > Ah, one more thing: You need to pass a new variable to the kernel upon > > startup: "mx31lite_baseboard=1". This was done in order to split module > > code from baseboard code. > > > > In case you're using the 2-stage loading mechanism, you need to teach > > this to your first-stage loader. > > > Thanks for the response, > > I have added that parameter and still no love, > > LOLO 2.4.0 provides the tags so I simply upload the kernel in elf > format and execute it passing the bootstring, > I also modified an older second stage bootloader I have from Hasan and > added the parameter and tried that for same result. > > > > Also make sure you're downloading the full image to RAM from LoLo. The > > new kernel is certainly bigger than the version you currently use. > > > > I think you are onto something regarding the whole kernel being > uploaded tho, as during uncompression I only get 3 periods and with > other working kernels I get much more, however it does complete > decompression. That's ok. > this is why I attempted the Hasan bootloader again as I provide the > image as raw and provide the actual size in bytes. > this did not give any different results however, and the kernel > decompression still stops at 3 periods and states done, booting the > kernel. > > so using the Hasan bootloader I provide: > > load raw 0x81000000 1073016 /tftp/192.168.1.161:zImage ^^^^^^^ This is the length of the kernel image, and I doubt this is right. Check the size of your zImage file again, it's almost certainly bigger than that. Daniel