[U-Boot] Booting zImage on IXP425 BE

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 21:15 Sun 23 Nov     , Horst Rennfler wrote:
> Good evening...
> I have an IXP425 based platform which currently has redboot installed
> and want to replace it with u-boot of course :-)
> 
> I can start latest u-boot from git inside redboot, display flash
> information,
> doing memory test, tftp images onto it without problems...
> 
> What bugs me is the fact that I am not able to boot any arm-linux
> zImage inside u-boot but redboot can...

normally with u-boot we use a uImage not a zImage directly

> 
> Trying to boot from within u-boot it just hangs after the call to
> "decompress_kernel" from arch/arm/compressed/head.S"...

active the low-level kernel debug

and check that in u-boot you pass the good machine ID to the kernel

Best Regards,
J.