[U-Boot-Users] Doubt regarding bootm in Uboot

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <fa686aa40708052232w52f693d9o2a92ecdab67b3833 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Wherever you want to load it.  u-boot will relocate it to the correct
> location after uncompressing the kernel uImage file.

Strictly speaking, U-boot *copies* the kernel to the correct  address
("relocate"  has  a  somewhat  different  meaning);  also, it does so
*while* uncompressing it, not after.

> So, when booting your Linux kernel that was built with ARCH=powerpc,
> you should pass three parameters to the bootm command.
> 1. address of the kernel
> 2. address of the (or '-' if you don't have one)

... address of the initial ramdisk image (or ...

> 3. address of the device tree


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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