Re: x86 embedded - Problem getting past 'move compressed kernel before decompression'

[Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>]

Graeme Russ wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 03/01/2010 11:41 AM, Graeme Russ wrote:
>>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> On 03/01/2010 03:56 AM, Graeme Russ wrote:
>>>>> I have done a little more digging. By adding an ascii string before
>>>>> relocated: label, I am able to determine that the int3 after the relocated:
>>>>> label exists in bzImage at offset 0x1C3FD7
>>>>>
>>>>> EAX holds (for the jump) 0x5379d0 (different bzImage of course). The
>>>>> contents of memory at this address is in bzImage at offset 0x1C09D7 - A
>>>>> difference of 0x3600 (seems too even to be random)
>>>>>

I've had a close look at the memory dumps and it looks like U-Boot is not
loading in the .text section which is _after_ the compressed vmlinux. This
is what contains the code after the relocated: label. Looks like the
bzImage anatomy information on the net is a little out of date - They
appear to have all the decompression code before the compressed kernel...

I've taken a slightly different tack now - I am tftp'ing the entire bzImage
to 0xfca00 (0x100000 - 0x3600) and adjusting the setup_header pointer to
0xfca00 + 0x1f1 and jumping to 0x10000. After a few false starts, I am able
to get an lzo compressed bzImage up to startup_32 in arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S

My next problem is at Enable Paging:

/*
 * Enable paging
 */
	movl $pa(swapper_pg_dir),%eax
	movl %eax,%cr3		/* set the page table pointer.. */
	movl %cr0,%eax
	orl  $X86_CR0_PG,%eax
	movl %eax,%cr0		/* ..and set paging (PG) bit */
	ljmp $__BOOT_CS,$1f	/* Clear prefetch and normalize %eip */


The kernel crashes at:
	movl %eax,%cr0		/* ..and set paging (PG) bit */

Argh, so close, yet so far :(

regards.

Graeme