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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: fix FIT image with ramdisk
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:38:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130720223822.GQ18359@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ0bgR2FtFSbVuAYyOJTRWuigRLT5yje-O=ZM5n_zieuew@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 04:06:27PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > No, because what we have today is insufficient for the kernel, you
> > still have to specify the load/entry point, in FIT at least, even on
> > NOLOAD.  I'd have sworn at least, I couldn't find a way to get around
> > this problem before...
> >
> 
> NOLOAD does work provided that the kernel in the FIT is a zImage.
> Personally I think that is an odd thing to do, since U-Boot is perfectly
> capable of decompressing a kernel, and the decompression shim requires ugly
> hacks for caches and low-level serial access.

I haven't seen a .its with a NOLOAD kernel that doesn't specify a
load/entry property for it.  If you've got one, and it works on a
Beaglebone (which doesn't have DDR starting at 0x0 ...), I'd love to see
the .its :)

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-20 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-12 13:09 [U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: fix FIT image with ramdisk Stefano Babic
2013-07-12 13:20 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-12 21:24 ` Tom Rini
2013-07-13  7:17   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-13  9:33   ` Stefano Babic
2013-07-13 11:21   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-07-13 20:02     ` Tom Rini
2013-07-14  2:26     ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-14  2:55       ` Tom Rini
2013-07-20 22:06         ` Simon Glass
2013-07-20 22:38           ` Tom Rini [this message]
2013-07-20 23:29             ` Simon Glass
2013-07-20 23:36               ` Tom Rini
2013-08-13 13:53                 ` Tom Rini

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