[U-Boot-Users] Linux Hangs After Uncompressing Kernel

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Sun Oct 1 11:17:45 CEST 2006


Hi Wenwen,

On Saturday 30 September 2006 18:33, wenwen wrote:
> i download a 6M Byte kernel(28M bytes uncompressed) to SDRAM(0x4000000), it
> hangs after uncompressing kernel.

I have never seen such a big kernel image. I can't believe that it should be 
possible to configure such a huge kernel, even with all options enabled. You 
must be doing something wrong here.

> when i use standalone downlod the kernel, i found the text section which
> offset is 8M bytes is not the same as the objdump file of the elf file. is
> there any limited size about kernel ? i used amcc ppc440 sequoia board

Where did you get the linux kernel? What version are you using?

Best regards,
Stefan




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