[E3-hacking] kernel compilaton question.

Jonathan McDowell noodles at earth.li
Mon May 1 11:05:14 BST 2006


On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:05:01AM +0000, David J. Singer wrote:
> 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.... :)

Sort of. The .pbl file should stay as 0x11d00000 and you should "bootm
11d00000". The kernel load of 0x10008000 gets written into the uImage
file so u-boot knows that's where the kernel needs to finally end up.

J.

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