From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:13:17 +0000 Subject: Re: XIP_KERNEL and !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM Message-Id: <20150322091317.GF5664@pengutronix.de> List-Id: References: <20150320081910.GF10068@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Hello Chris, On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 08:18:10PM +0000, Chris Brandt wrote: > > > Of course to actually boot an XIP kernel, you have to make a custom c= ommand in u-boot (using bootm or go is not going to work). > > It should. I remember that you need to pass something unintuitive to > > mkimage (to not say buggy). See > > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2007-March/020171.html for my > > try to fix that back when I still cared about U-Boot. >=20 > I originally started down that path...but it was so screwed up and > really only worked for the power PC architecture. It was more work to > hack it than just making a very simple function that loaded the > R0,R1,R2 registers and jumped to the start of the kernel. Back then it worked for me on ARM, too. Best regards Uwe --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |