[U-Boot] Booting a dt zImage kernel

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Fabio Estevam,

> Hi,
> 
> I am able to successfully boot a zImage kernel with latest 2012.04
> U-boot on mx28evk.

Oh I'm so dead :-(

> Now I want to boot a dt zImage version.
> 
> These are the steps I am doing:
> 
> make menuconfig and select [*] Support MXS platforms from device tree
> 
> make imx28-evk.dtb
> 
> make
> 
> cat arch/arm/boot/imx28-evk.dtb arch/arm/boot/zImage >
> arch/arm/boot/zImage_dtb
> 
> cp arch/arm/boot/zImage_dtb  /tftpboot/zImage
> 
> Then I get the following result:
> 
> U-Boot 2012.04-00001-ga1f2367-dirty (Apr 23 2012 - 10:01:52)
> 
> Freescale i.MX28 family at 454 MHz
> DRAM:  128 MiB
> MMC:   MXS MMC: 0
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   FEC0, FEC1
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> BOOTP broadcast 1
> BOOTP broadcast 2
> DHCP client bound to address 10.29.244.54
> Using FEC0 device
> TFTP from server 10.29.240.143; our IP address is 10.29.244.54
> Filename 'zImage'.
> Load address: 0x42000000
> Loading: ## Warning: gatewayip needed but not set
> #################################################################
>          #################################################################
>          #################################################################
>          #################################################################
>          #################################################################
>          #################################################################
>          ##################################################
> done
> Bytes transferred = 2250927 (2258af hex)
> Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!
> 
> Any idea of why this is failing?

Dunno, maybe you need further patch?

> Thanks,
> 
> Fabio Estevam

Best regards,
Marek Vasut