From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Sylvain Munaut Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Linux on MPC5200 - LITE5200EVAL & New bestcomm code ? From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:34:36 +0100." <40458A8C.8020009@246tNt.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:03:26 +0100 Message-Id: <20040303080332.0EA92C0655@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <40458A8C.8020009@246tNt.com> you wrote: > > and it works just fine ... Apparently when the kernel was too big, the > area near 100000 is probably used by u-boot in some way, maybe during Well, it is not used by U-Boot itself, but when you have a big Linux kernel it starts overwriting itself when you uncompress it to address 0. > software issue. Maybe u-boot should give some warning about that ( if > it's the cause, not yet sure ). But that's off topic here. U-Boot does not know the uncompressed size in advance. And anyway - it's a pilot error :-) In modification of anmother famous quote: "U-Boot was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." > Now, I'm just looking forward for new BestComm code, to get AC97 and IDE > DMA running ( quite slow and CPU intensive right now ... ). :-( Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Q: How many DEC repairman does it take to fix a flat ? A: Five; four to hold the car up and one to swap tires. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/