From: Bob Beck <beck@assurtech.com>
To: dan@embeddededge.com
Cc: mgroeger@sysgo.com, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: ADS860 - unable to load kernel- Bad magic number
Date: 27 Feb 2004 15:32:35 +1400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077845555.4625.15.camel@budweiser> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403F9B5C.7010707@embeddededge.com>
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 09:32, Dan Malek wrote:
> Bob Beck wrote:
>
> > Thanks. What is the difference between zImage.embedded and vmlinux.gz
> > generated by the kernel build ?
>
> Huge. The vmlinux.gz is just the gzipped kernel. The zImage contains
> the 'bootloader' code that can perform some processor initialization,
> uncompresses the vmlinux.gz, locates it properly in memory, sets initial
> registers, then jumps to the start of the kernel.
Does this mean I should put zImage.embedded into 1 place in memory,
vmlinux.gz into a different place in memory and jump to the start of
zImage.embedded ?
Currently, we are not using U-Boot. We load the binaries into RAM
using a hand rolled program and jump to 0x10000.
Bob
>
> > This is the file used by U-Boot's mkImage command to produce a
> > vmlinux.img file.
>
> If you are building for u-boot, you should 'make uImage' and use
> the uImage that is created.
>
>
> -- Dan
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-27 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-02-26 17:24 ` ADS860 - unable to load kernel- Bad magic number Bob Beck
2004-02-27 16:32 ` Marius Groeger
2004-02-26 22:22 ` Bob Beck
2004-02-27 17:29 ` Marius Groeger
2004-02-26 22:38 ` Bob Beck
2004-02-27 19:32 ` Dan Malek
2004-02-27 1:32 ` Bob Beck [this message]
2004-02-27 21:05 ` Dan Malek
2004-03-01 22:58 ` Booting Linux on a Custom PPC Board Bob Beck
2004-03-02 23:51 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-03-02 17:45 ` Bob Beck
2004-02-27 4:34 ADS860 - unable to load kernel- Bad magic number m.venkatraj
2004-02-27 4:45 ` John Zhou
2004-02-27 8:07 ` song sam
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2004-02-27 8:27 Demke, Torsten
2004-02-27 9:14 m.venkatraj
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