command bootu to start kernel

[Belisko Marek]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Juergen Beisert <jbe at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:33:15PM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote:
>> > Belisko Marek wrote:
>> > > I have mini2440 board with barebox running from RAM.
>> > > I try to start uImage kernel for that platform but I'm little bit
>> > > confused how to do it.
>> > >
>> > > I do tftp uImage and the bootu uImage but it always hangs :
>> > >
>> > > commandline: console=ttySAC0,115200
>> > > arch_number: 1999
>> > >
>> > > I track down that theKernel pointer point to 0xffffffff (memmap return
>> > > (void*)-1) which is obviously wrong.
>> > > If I understand correctly bootu function take first parameter and try
>> > > to open a file and memmap. If file isn't opened successfully then
>> > > convert string address which is then taken for
>> > > theKernel pointer.
>> > >
>> > > Is this correct procedure or do I something wrong?
>> >
>> > Try to start a zImage with "bootz". On my system 'bootm' and 'bootu' do
>> > not work.
>>
>> bootz is for starting zImages. At least this command has a convenient
>> name :)
>> bootz should work on your system aswell. If not, please complain loudly.
>
> bootz works here. bootm always complains with the scripts from the generic
> environment:
bootz also work here but need to increase malloc size. Use 8M instead 4M.
>
> booting kernel of type uimage from /dev/ram0.kernel
> Bad Magic Number
>
> But:
>
> me at host$ file arch/arm/boot/uImage
> arch/arm/boot/uImage: u-boot legacy uImage, Linux-2.6.31-00770-g54c3fe6-dir,
> Linux/ARM, OS Kernel Image (Not compressed), 2350016 bytes, Mon Oct 25
> 16:58:30 2010, Load Address: 0x40008000, Entry Point: 0x40008000, Header CRC:
> 0x17A7330B, Data CRC: 0x888DAA63
>
> Anything wrong with the uImage (built with "make uImage") or the
> command 'bootm'?
Instead bootm for my uImage works:
bootm uImage
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Image Name:   Linux-2.6.32-rc8
   Created:      2010-09-27   8:36:01 UTC
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    2058404 Bytes =  2 MB
   Load Address: 30008000
   Entry Point:  30008000
OK
commandline: console=ttySAC0,115200
arch_number: 1999

Starting kernel ...

strange but true ;)
>
> jbe
>
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thanks,

marek

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