[U-Boot] Debugging into the kernel from u-boot

Dunda, Matthias Matthias.Dunda at de.thalesgroup.com
Fri Apr 30 14:55:42 CEST 2010


Hi all-

I - more or less - successfully got U-Boot up and running on our custom
designed board.

U-Boot leaves its premices in boot_jump_linux and this is the last I see on
the console:

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02000000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-2.6.29.6-rt23
   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    1830522 Bytes =  1.7 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 00400000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x400000
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 00000000)...
   Booting using OF flat tree...

When I halt the board using the BDI3000 debugger, I find the PC somewhere in
0xc000c96c in __delay. Accessing 0xc000.... makes no sense, as we don't even
have mapped memory there.

Using HW breakpoints I can see the single instructions from 0x0 on, but I
get no link to the source.

Where can I get a meaningful starting point in the kernel? 

Why are all the symbols in vmlinux located at 0xc0... and how does the
relocation take place? I saw some comment in arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
but yet I have no clue where to start practically?

Any help would be appreciated!

Have a nice weekend!
Matthias



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