[U-Boot-Users] uImage's load address and entry point?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <c3d0340b041112155334118395 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I have built a uClinux kernel image vmlinux and the header information
> is dumped here by objdump. I want to make a uImage to let u-boot start
> linux and am confused about the values of load address and entry
> point. If the uImage is built from raw binary linux.bin, the load
> address and entry point should be set to 0. Right? If it is built from

Maybe, maybe not. I have no idea what your memory map looks like.

> vmlinux, the entry point in my case should be 0x00008000, what' should
> be the load address?

load address and entry point address do NOT depend on which image you
use for building the U-Boot image (actually the only choice you  have
is  using the raw binary or the compressed raw binary). They depen on
your kernel's memory map, and nothing else.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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