[U-Boot] bootm command: is there any load address limitation for fdt?

Jerry Van Baren gerald.vanbaren at ge.com
Thu Dec 11 13:04:58 CET 2008


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Richard Retanubun,
> 
> In message <49404A1C.1070801 at RuggedCom.com> you wrote:
>> I am trying to limit the amount of memory needed to load and boot a linux kernel (2.6.26)
>> to do this I loaded my fdt at address 0x20_0000 and uImage at 0x_30_0000

FWIIW, your FDT blob should be a whole lot less than 1MB, like 4K-16K. 
I've taken to loading it 0x8000 (32K) before my linux image.

[snip Wolfgang's diagnosis of the overwrite problem]

Best regards,
gvb


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