[U-Boot-Users] RE: start / load addresses for initrd

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <EGEGIJHKDKJGAJMGIDPNCEBNCKAA.jwalden at digitalatlantic.com> you wrote:
> 
> Once again - I'm making progress on bringing up Linux
> on a custom 405GPr board using u-boot.

...which is not exactly the topic of this list.

> First - I got my serial console working in Linux.
> I did not have to use TLB's or BAT's to map
> the memory addresses of the UART to properly initialize it.
> 
> I simply commented out the initialization that is done in
> /drivers/char/serial.c for the serial console.  The initialization
> that I did in u-boot was sufficient.

I don't think that was a good idea. Basicly it means that you did not
understand what's going on,  which  is  not  a  good  base  to  build
embedded systems on.

> At this point I am trying to get the ramdisk working.  The
> reason I am posting to this list is that I am not sure of the
> command line kernel options for initrd and the ram disk.
...
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0

Command line options look ok to me (at least for a  first  test;  you
might want to add "rw" later).

...
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> RAMDISK: incomplete write (ramdisk too small?) (-28 != 32768)
...

Where did you get this ramdisk image from? What makes you think it is
working at all?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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