Problems with the Load a new kernel image

Jan Lübbe jlu at pengutronix.de
Tue Apr 2 04:39:49 EDT 2013


On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 09:41 +0200, "Breixo López García" wrote:
> malloc space: 0x80b00000 -> 0x80ffffff (size  5 MB)                            
> stack space:  0x80af8000 -> 0x80b00000 (size 32 kB)                            
> running /env/bin/init...                                                       
>                                                                                
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  3                                               
> barebox at Phytec phyCORE-AM335x:/ boot -k tftp -r net                            
> do_tftpb: /.tftp_tmp_path/linuximage -> /image                                 
> 100Mbps full duplex link detected
>                                       #################################################################      
>         #################################################################      
>         #################################################################      
>         #################################################################      
>         ############write: Out of memory           
>      
> I have changed the barebox's property malloc_size of the barebox
> because the image is >4MB and I supposed that the problem was that the
> kernel is out of the reserver area for kernel in the RAM (tftp mode)
> before it is saved in the flash but without successful. What is the
> real Issue that doesn't allow to boot propertly the kernel
>  
> The kernel that is used:
> $ ls -l /tftpboot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sst  sst   4964864 Apr  2 09:35 linuximage

Please try with a larger malloc size than 5MB, barebox needs malloc
space for other things besides the kernel image as well. Why is it so
small when your board has 512MB?

Regards,
Jan

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