[U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: fix FIT image with ramdisk

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Sun Jul 21 00:38:22 CEST 2013


On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 04:06:27PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > No, because what we have today is insufficient for the kernel, you
> > still have to specify the load/entry point, in FIT at least, even on
> > NOLOAD.  I'd have sworn at least, I couldn't find a way to get around
> > this problem before...
> >
> 
> NOLOAD does work provided that the kernel in the FIT is a zImage.
> Personally I think that is an odd thing to do, since U-Boot is perfectly
> capable of decompressing a kernel, and the decompression shim requires ugly
> hacks for caches and low-level serial access.

I haven't seen a .its with a NOLOAD kernel that doesn't specify a
load/entry property for it.  If you've got one, and it works on a
Beaglebone (which doesn't have DDR starting at 0x0 ...), I'd love to see
the .its :)

-- 
Tom
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