[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/5] bootm: Add the missing PREP stage to bootz and correct image handling

[Sughosh Ganu]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Sughosh Ganu <urwithsughosh at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi Tom,
>
> On Tue Jul 09, 2013 at 05:19:32PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > Yes, I am not really comfortable with this. I will see if I can write
> some
> > > sandbox tests for the other image types today and post my results. I
> guess
> > > this bootm code has built up over a long time and it is hard to know
> all
> > > the ways it is used.
> >
> > Important, but I really want to see real-world booting in a case or two.
> > Unfortunately I don't have any ARM boards that work out of the box with
> > NetBSD.
>
> I have netbsd running on hawkboard, but i do not boot it using the
> bootm command, but use the go command instead. I will try to build a
> netbsd image with the u-boot header and give it a try with bootm. Need
> a day or two to check this out though.
>

Tried to boot netbsd with u-boot head 225fd8c5d45, and the boot fails. Was
able to boot netbsd with v2012.10 u-boot image. Btw, am i supposed to apply
any patch on top of the said commit.

hawkboard > bootm c3000000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at c3000000 ...
   Image Name:   Netbsd
   Image Type:   ARM NetBSD Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    2329152 Bytes = 2.2 MiB
   Load Address: c0200000
   Entry Point:  c0200000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK
subcommand not supported
hawkboard >

-sughosh