Re: Strange behavior with I2C on Sequoia board

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Geert,

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808211630170.20704@vixen.sonytel.be> you wrote:
>
> Can you actually boot a plain uImage from U-Boot?

yes, of course you can (you will need a device tree, too).

> I've just gave it a try.  While arch/powerpc/boot/cuImage.sequoia boots fine,
> after `make uImage', I get arch/powerpc/boot/uImage, but it doesn't boot:
> 
> | ## Booting image at 00100000 ...
> |    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.27-rc4-dirty
> |    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> |    Data Size:    1398827 Bytes =  1.3 MB
> |    Load Address: 00000000
> |    Entry Point:  00000000
> |    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> |    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Error: inflate() returned -3
> | GUNZIP ERROR - must RESET board to recover
> | 
> | U-Boot 1.2.0-gc0c292b2 (Jun  5 2007 - 07:16:12)
> 
> and I'm back to U-Boot...

See the FAQ: http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxUncompressingError

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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