From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E6FE0043B for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r8AFIerX004156 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.224.22.41] (128.224.22.41) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.347.0; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:18:39 -0700 Message-ID: <522F384A.4070702@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:18:34 -0400 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org" , "poky@yoctoproject.org" References: <373355466ed7a2c31efd16f1b07c0d089c9d38d5.1378500902.git.bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> <20130910080836.GA5871@ad.chargestorm.se> <522ED553.1080202@windriver.com> <20130910083634.GB5871@ad.chargestorm.se> In-Reply-To: <20130910083634.GB5871@ad.chargestorm.se> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] beagleboard: upgrade the kernel to 3.10.x X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:18:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 13-09-10 04:36 AM, Anders Darander wrote: > * Bruce Ashfield [130910 10:16]: > >> On 13-09-10 04:08 AM, Anders Darander wrote: >>> * Bruce Ashfield [130906 22:59]: >>>> From: Liming Wang > >>>> In 3.10.x linux kernel, uImage can't be compiled by default. But zImage >>>> has been supported by the latest u-boot, so use zImage as the default kernel >>>> image file. In u-boot command, use "bootz", instead of "bootm", to boot the kernel. > >>> NAK. (At least based on the info given above regarding the uImage to >>> zImage transfer). > >>> I missed this patch earlier... > >>> What's the issue with uImage on 3.10.x? >>> I'm running a kernel.org 3.10.x using linux-yocto-custom just fine here >>> (although for another board). > >>> I suspect the issue (that I guess Liming had), is due to the powerpc >>> being mixed into his build. (Bruce replied on the oe-core list to a >>> path which corrected the path to the DTS). > >> No, that wasn't the issue. uImage requires a LOADADDR in many cases and >> that isn't currently encoded in the machine configs. > > Ah, ok. Then I'll obviously redraw my NAK-wishes for this patch. > > I think the reason that uImage can't be compiled should have been stated > in the commit log, though. If for nothing else, just to make it clear to > everyone that there's no general uImage issue; rather an issue with the > specific board setup. We can do that. I also re-opened the bugzilla so it can be used for making sure this is clear. Bruce > > Cheers, > Anders > >> zImage works fine, want to expand our coverage with the reference boards, >> so no, there's no NAK of this. It's fine as is. > >> Other layers and BSPs are free to use uImage, just as this reference >> is free to use the zImage. > >