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

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 05:29:19PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> +Stephen
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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 :)
> >
> 
> We use one with load/exec addresses of 0 (on a platform with no RAM there).
> With NOLOAD the address seems to be ignored anyway.

OK, I shall play around again now that I've got a I swear working
FIT image.

-- 
Tom
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