[U-Boot-Users] Flawed ATAG passing

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Christian,

in message <20040728164601.GA19459 at stud4.tuwien.ac.at> you wrote:
> 
> While trying to get Linux (2.4.19-rmk7-pxa2 and 2.6.7-mm7) start with
> a ramdisk on a xm250 board, i discovered, that uboot 1.1.1 seems to have a
> problem passing the ATAGs to the kernel.
...
> It seems that the kernel recieves all tags u-boot provided, but not 
> all are parsed. Which seems strange, since none of the parse_tag_* 

Why do you think that U-Boot has problems when the  Linux  kernel  is
actually receiving all ATAGs?

> functions in arch/arm/kernel/setup.c which are called by parse_tags(),
> can return something other than 0 which means that parse_tags() should
> read the next tag wich it doesn't. 
> 
> Has anybody experienced something simmilar, is this a known issue?

It works fine (at least for  2.4.x  kernels)  on  several  boards;  I
didn't test 2.6.x so far.

How about adding a bit more debugging code to your Linux kerenl?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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