[ELDK] U-Boot version required to boot kernel 3.10 on PowerPC

[Peter Oruba]

I went back to the kernel sources that were used to build our legacy 2.6.38 and indeed there is a proprietary BSP source file which I merged into a vanilla 2.6.38 tree and now it works. From here I can start bisecting with increasing kernel versions.

Thank you for your support everybody,
Peter

Am 25.06.2014 um 20:21 schrieb Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>:

> Dear Peter,
> 
> In message <4EB0CE59-6870-4DE7-AC24-2FA4B5EAA73F at gmail.com> you wrote:
>> 
>> Sure. The result is
>> 
>> INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x576ac0) overlaps the address of the
>> wrapper(0x400000)
>> INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x600000)
> 
> I don;t know what exactly you are doing here, but you definitely have
> a serious problem here.  

I totally agree :)

> Can you try and build the kernel with a
> simple, known to be workign kernel configuration without any such
> fancy features enabled?

> 
>> Image Name:   Linux-3.10.42
>> Created:      Wed Jun 25 15:45:54 2014
>> Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>> Data Size:    2863198 Bytes = 2796.09 kB = 2.73 MB
>> Load Address: 00000000
>> Entry Point:  00000000
>> 
>> I load that kernel via TFTP to address 0x600000 (is that ok or is it
>> supposed not to overlap with the wrapper?)
> 
> Note that these "INFO:" messages are note printed by U-Boot, but by
> Linux kernel code (arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper) which should not be
> there at all for a plain Linux kernel image.  So your problem appears
> not to be in U-Boot land, but somewhere in how you configure and build
> the Linux kernel, probably as a result of enabling non-trivial kernel
> options.
> 
> My recommendation is realy to get rid of all such fancy stuff and get
> a plain stupid Linux kernel image working first (i.e. without any of
> this wrapper stuff) before to venture out into such areas.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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