[U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Sep 13 21:21:33 CEST 2010


On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:19:34 +0200
Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se> wrote:

> >
> > Dear "Ira W. Snyder",
> >
> > In message <20100910181022.GA18510 at ovro.caltech.edu> you wrote:
> > >
> > > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I try and
> > > convert the other boards too? How should I know which boards are safe?
> > > Grep for CONFIG_E300?
> >
> > I think we should try and update all boards where this applies. I'm
> > not sure, but my wild guess is that this means all processors except
> > 40x and 8xx (probably 5xx as well, but AFAICT there is no Linux
> > available for these anyway, so it does not matter).
> 
> I think 8xx can be fixed quite easily to do 16 MB if needed. Probably
> won't be needed though.

Actually, I got a complaint a while ago (I think it was Ben H) about
problems with large kernels with debugging options on 8xx.

-Scott



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