XIP_KERNEL and !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM

Chris Brandt Chris.Brandt at renesas.com
Fri Mar 20 13:18:10 PDT 2015


> > Of course to actually boot an XIP kernel, you have to make a custom command in u-boot (using bootm or go is not going to work).
> It should. I remember that you need to pass something unintuitive to mkimage (to not say buggy). See http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2007-March/020171.html for my try to fix that back when I still cared about U-Boot.

I originally started down that path...but it was so screwed up and really only worked for the power PC architecture. It was more work to hack it than just making a very simple function that loaded the R0,R1,R2 registers and jumped to the start of the kernel.

Chris




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