[U-Boot-Users] Current U-Boot doesn't boot device tree enabled kernel anymore

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Mar 27 17:25:52 CET 2008


Dear Bartek,

in message <87hces18nu.fsf at denx.de> Markus Klotzbücher wrote:
> 
> Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Thursday 27 March 2008, Bartlomiej Sieka wrote:
> 
> >> The image got overwritten during decompression. Try loading the image at
> >> a higher address.
> >
> > Right. This works. But I'm wondering why this is the case, since "old" U-Boot 
> > can decompress to this destination successfully. This is quite annoying, 
> > since now I have to change all default env variables for this new "legacy" 
> > bootm command. So do you have any idea where the difference comes from?
> 
> Odd. My first thought was this must be unrelated and the kernel just
> grew enough for this to happen. But I see the same failure with top of
> git sequoia, while it works fine with an older version[1].
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Markus Klotzbuecher
> 
> [1] U-Boot 1.3.2-rc3-g91c82076 (Mar 19 2008 - 10:23:31)

Can you please check what's going on there? I think such a regression
should not happen -  also  the  significant  size  increase  observed
especially on ARM systems.

Please check if there were - for example - merge problems, i.  e.  if
the code is indeed correct.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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