[ELDK] Want to build a ebc.ko object

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear John,

in message <B9639434CFA424438117913649CDB78704E3750A at MA_EXCHANGE.corp.sds.l-3com.com> you wrote:
> I am able to build a uImage from your repository.  When I install the

This statement is obviously wrong - it seems you can build new uImage
files just fine, but they just don't run as expected...

> new uImage file on the Kilauea evaluation board the last output says
> loading "ramdisk to xxx, end yyy ...OK" and that's it.
> 
> Are there some other dependencies that I am not aware of???  For
> instance is eldkv 4.2 ok or the original ramdisk image ok?

Yes, both have been tested and are known to work, at least in earlier
versions of the source tree.

>   WRAP    arch/powerpc/boot/uImage
> Image Name:   Linux-2.6.25-rc6-01253-gca0a328

Here you use a very recent (Sun Mar 23 16:34:41 2008 +0100) Linux
kernel over a ...

> U-Boot 1.3.1-g5dd372a2 (Jan 14 2008 - 11:01:38)

...not so recent (Mon Jan 14 10:48:28 2008 +0100) version of U-Boot.

> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  5 \0x08\0x08\0x08 4 \0x08\0x08\0x08 3
> \0x08\0x08\0x08 2 \0x08\0x08\0x08 1 \0x08\0x08\0x08 0 
> Using ip address 192.168.1.50
> ## Booting image at fc000000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.25-rc6-01253-gca0a328
>    Created:      2008-03-24  19:18:59 UTC
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1555953 Bytes =  1.5 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> ## Loading RAMDisk Image at fc200000 ...
>    Image Name:   kilauea Ramdisk Rev 002
>    Created:      2008-01-15   0:20:02 UTC
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    19048671 Bytes = 18.2 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Loading Ramdisk to 0ecf5000, end 0ff1f8df ... OK

Unfortunately you fail to show us your boot command, but to me it
seems as if you did not load (and pass to Linux) a device tree blob?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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