From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Cc: "'linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org'" <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: problems with ppc405 on 2.6.11.8.
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:44:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050513184458.B15958@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3086.1116027422@marajade.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>; from mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca on Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:37:02PM -0400
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:37:02PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> A customer of mine has a PPC405 system, which was based upon the
> Embedded Planet design. It runs U-boot 0.4.0, and the system currently
> ships with a kernel based upon Timesys 2.4.18.
>
> We are in the process of upgrading to 2.6.11. (linus, not timesys. We
> see no value add from timesys)
>
> The major stumbling block was using boot/simple/{head,relocate}.S,
> and the inftrees.c. For reasons we do not understand, the system would
> fail in huft_build() when (setting up for) decompressing. We traced
> through this using our bdi2000, after failing with puts() additions.
If you are booting off of U-boot, why are you trying to boot a
zImage? You should be booting a uImage which doesn't use the
bootwrapper glue code in arch/ppc/boot/. Load the right image
and you will avoid all of this.
-Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-14 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 23:37 problems with ppc405 on 2.6.11.8 Michael Richardson
2005-05-14 1:44 ` Matt Porter [this message]
2005-05-14 2:59 ` Roger Larsson
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