[U-Boot] And what about fitImages and ram disks?

[Patrick Doyle]

I just created my initramfs and inserted it into my fit-image.its
file.  When I booted, I saw the following:

   Trying 'ramdisk' ramdisk subimage
     Description:  Bootstrap ramdisk
     Type:         RAMDisk Image
     Compression:  gzip compressed
     Data Start:   0x811ae9f0
     Data Size:    2613908 Bytes = 2.5 MiB
     Architecture: MIPS
     OS:           Linux
     Load Address: 0x00000000
     Entry Point:  0x00000000
     Hash algo:    sha256
     Hash value:
0faa7c3e4927b685cd5a050112ea6b90ad4dec4e4ea8627b4f589bfc60082eba
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha256+ OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
   Loading Ramdisk to 83ad9000, end 83d57294 ... OK
   Loading Ramdisk to 8385a000, end 83ad8294 ... OK
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.115-yocto-standard-custom
(oe-user at oe-host) (gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC)) #1 Fri Jun 14 19:49:57 UTC
2019
[    0.000000] Board has DDR2
[    0.000000] Analog PMU set to hw control
[    0.000000] Digital PMU set to hw control
[    0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7688 ver:1 eco:2
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019655 (MIPS 24KEc)
[    0.000000] MIPS: machine is MediaTek LinkIt Smart 7688
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd

Does anybody have any hints as to why the Ramdisk would be relocated twice?
Does anybody have any hints as to why the kernel didn't notice the ramdisk?

As you may notice, I am building these images with Yocto.  The Yocto
documentation advvices to bundle the initramfs with the kernel image,
which I can do.  But I am presented with two options here: bundle it
with the kernel (which has been around since forwver), or bundle it in
the FIT Image.  I decided to assume that the Yocto documentation was a
bit out of date and started by bundling it with my FIT image.

I will try doing what the documentation said to do next, but in the
mean time, I thought I would ask what others have experienced with
booting FIT Images with RAM disks.  (For my particular application, I
only ever need one configuration, with one kernel, one fdt, and one
ramdisk, all of which could be bundled into the one kernel... so
arguably, I don't need the flexibility of bundling it in the FIT
image).

Thanks for any tips.

--wpd