[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QEMU: ARM: boot: Load kernel at an Image friendly address

Joel Fernandes agnel.joel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 09:06:33 PDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 2 April 2014 13:11, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite at xilinx.com> wrote:
>> Like others, I have been carrying this change locally. Good to see it up!
>
> Why are you all booting raw Images anyway (just out of curiosity)? All my
> test cases boot either a zImage or a uImage, or occasionally a full SD card
> image, or I'd have noticed this earlier...

zImage fails for me on OMAP1, which I'm debugging, the errors have
more to do with writing out of memory limits. But I was not sure if
the problem was with decompression or something else, so I wanted to
boot the basic case (Image) first.

Thanks,
-Joel



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