[U-Boot] u-boot <=> kernel compatibility?

Chris Moore moore at free.fr
Wed Nov 8 10:21:34 UTC 2017


Hi,

Le 08/11/2017 à 09:11, daggs a écrit :
>> Greetings Tom,
>>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2017 at 8:37 PM
>>> From: "Tom Rini" <trini at konsulko.com>
>>> To: daggs <daggs at gmx.com>
>>> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] u-boot <=> kernel compatibility?
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 07:22:06AM +0100, daggs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> is there a minimum kernel version limitation on the latest release of
>>>> u-boot?  the reason I'm asking is that I'm unable to boot a arm board
>>>> with latest u-boot and the vendor's kernel which is based on kernel
>>>> 3.14.x
>>>>
>>> There is generally not, but what is your actual error?  Thanks!
>>>
>> the last print I see is Starting kernel ...
>> using prints I was able to trace the call to armv8_switch_to_el2, if I'm not mistaken, this is a asm code in the kernel I'm trying to boot, am I wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dagg.
> Tom, am I right in the assumption above?
>
> Dagg.

I am neither Tom nor a U-Boot expert but *think* "Starting kernel ..." 
comes from U-Boot, not the kernel.

Cheers,
Chris


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