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

[Amit Shah]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:10:12 +0200, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> In message <877aabc404082310482a315b4d at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > > Did you actually use 4 MB (400000) or did you use some other  address
> > > by  accident? What is your exact boot comand, and which output do you
> > > get?
> >
> > Oh.. right! I used 0x4.0000 instead of 0x40.0000. Damn.
> 
> [Tip: type the '0's in three pairs of two; this is easy  to  remember
> and easy to type - i. e. "4...00...00...00".]

.. you meant 5 zeroes there, right?

> > Okay, so CRC, gunzip are now working. Thanks Michael and WD.
> 
> Fine.
> 
> > But the post-Linux problem still remains: my BDI has gone for a
> > replacement, so I have to use some early putchars with the UART that
> > was initialized by u-boot. I place two putchars in early_init in
> > arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c, but I just see one. So does that mean my
> > stack's getting corrupted?
> 
> Probably your second putchar is after the MMU has been turned on  and
> it  the  cause  for the crash. Remove this code, and use post-morthem
> dumps of the logbuf buffer. See the FAQ section in the DULG.

Yep, that's the next step. Thanks.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Amit.
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