[U-Boot-Users] [rfc] warning about overlapping regions whenbooting with bootm

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <200802171529.23434.rgetz at blackfin.uclinux.org> you wrote:
>
> I always thought that when decompressing a uImage, that the entry point was 
> stored in the header, (at the beginning of the file) and was read after the 
> decompression took place - is that wrong?

I'm not sure what all the different architectures do,  but  at  least
for PowerPC, ARM and MIPS I know that one of the very first things we
do in the bootm code is to create a local copy of the image header.

Search for 'memcpy.*header'.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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