[E3-hacking] kernel compilaton question.

[David J. Singer]

On Monday 01 May 2006 09:52, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>
> Generally you use pbltool to load whatever kernel image you've made to
> 0x11d00000. You then do "bootm 11d00000" in u-boot, which relocates the
> kernel to the appropriate kernel load address and executes it. As such
> there are 2 "load addresses"; one for where pbltool loads the kernel and
> one for where u-boot loads it to. Which are you talking about?

Good question!  I think the essence of the problem is that I don't really 
know! :)

I observed that, once the kernel had compiled, it told me the load address was 
0x10008000 thus:

    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.16-omap2
    Created:      Mon May  1 10:59:33 2006
    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
    Data Size:    1478848 Bytes = 1444.19 kB = 1.41 MB
    Load Address: 0x10008000 
    Entry Point:  0x10008000
      Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready

I assumed I needed to adjust the load address in the .pbl config accordingly:

    write 0x10008000 uImage-2.6.16-omap2
    write 0x11c00000 rootfs.arm.ext2-djs.gz
    write 0x11f00000 u-boot.bin
    exec 0x11f00000

then just do:

    bootm 10008000

But that's obviously wrong!  I've done something silly, haven't I.... :)

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David J. Singer
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