[U-Boot] [POWERPC][BUG] ramdisk: u-boot no longer boots a ramdisk with Linux 2.6.27-rc4

[Kumar Gala]

On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:27 AM, Heiko Schocher wrote:

> Hello Kumar,
>
> I actually trying to boot a Linux 2.6.27-rc4 Kernel with a Ramdisk
> and actual u-boot on a MPC82xx based board. And what should I say,
> it doesnt work anymore :-(
>
> Reason is the following commit:
>
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=2a1a2cb6e2b87ee550e6f27b647d23331dfd5e1b#patch3
>
> After this commit, u-boot no longer deletes the mem reservation
> for the initrd in Flash, what stops Linux from booting.
>
> So I did the following, but maybe there is a better way for it?

I don't follow.. can you provide a bit more info about what's going on  
w/your mem reserves and what locations the ramdisk is at.

The code should have been identical to before.

- k