[U-Boot-Users] Uncompressing uImage: inflate() returned -3

[Michael Bendzick]

Amit-

Are you making sure that you don't locate the gzipped kernel in a location
of board memory that gets overwritten as the U-Boot gunzip takes place?

For instance...

If you put the gzipped kernel at 0x10008000 and the kernel load address is
also 0x10008000, you will obliterate your gzipped data as you unzip to
0x10008000.  I have seen this produce the -3 error.  If your gzip data fits
entirely before 0x10008000, you're safe.  Also, if you calculate how big the
gunzipped data is, and put the gzipped kernel that far after 0x10008000,
you'll also be in good shape.

-Michael Bendzick

-----Original Message-----
From: Amit Shah [mailto:shahamit at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:40 AM
To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Uncompressing uImage: inflate() returned -3


Hi,

I now have u-boot working properly on my single PPC750GX on MV64360;
it turned out to be SDRAM init issues, which were sorted out by some
trial and error.

Okay, so now there are issues when it's loading uImage: The uImage
built fails on the CRC. This is due to inconsistencies in the byte
order of vmlinux.gz. When built on i386, it is CRC'ed in little
endian, while when it's being checked on the board, it gets CRC'ed in
big endian... so there will definitely be a mismatch in the two CRCs.
Or I'm overlooking something.

So while generating the vmlinux.gz, I byteswapped it.. before feeding
it to mkimage. So the CRCs are matched, and gunzip on the board tries
to gunzip the image... However, it complains about 'bad gzipped data'.

Hmm, so setting 'verify' to 'n' also doesn't work; gunzip says
'inflate returned -3'.. which is some Z_DATA_ERROR.

I'm obviously doing something wrong here, since this should've worked...

I'm right now using an uncompressed image and working with it, that's
working fine, except the kernel's bombing out after some
initializations...

Amit.
-- 
Amit Shah
http://amitshah.nav.to/


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