[U-Boot] [PATCH] wandboard: Set default environment to use zImage

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 21:53:28 CET 2013


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> From: John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com>
>
> Change the default environment to use zImage instead of uImage,
> because using zImage does not require a LOADADDR assignment when
> building the kernel to be consistent with the loadaddr environment
> variable in u-boot, decreasing the chance for error.  This requires
> changes to the default environment to load a file named zImage
> instead of uImage, and to use the 'bootz' command instead of 'bootm'
> when booting the kernel.
>
> The zImage works for FSL Linux's kernel fork versions 3.0.35, 3.10.9,
> and 3.10.17; this also works fine for mainline kernels.  There is no
> reason to continue using uImage for default environment.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Weber <rjohnweber at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>


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