Dear Wolfgang Denk,
And your RAM is mapped at 0x80000000 ? That means U-Boot has just 1 MB for malloc arena, global data and stack? That's asking for trouble...
Thanks for the clue. Now the kernel 'inflation' is working.
I loaded the u-boot image at 0x81000000, instead of 0x80100000.
And Instead of vmlinux.bin (which was 3.1G), I use arch/arm/boot/Image to create kernel uboot image.
gzip -9 arch/arm/boot/Image
$ mkimage -n 'Linux' -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 -d arch/arm/boot/Image.gz kImage.ub
But upon booting kernel through u-boot, after inflation, I only get the message 'Starting kernel ...' and the system hangs.
The log as under:
====================================================================== $bootm 83a00000 ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 83a00000 ... Image Name: Linux Created: 2010-06-25 9:13:44 UTC Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 2611097 Bytes = 2.5 MiB Load Address: 80008000 Entry Point: 80008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Starting kernel ...
==========================================================================
The 'bootargs' env variable is
bootargs= root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.100.144.245:/android/android_rootfs,nolock,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 ip=10.100.144.42:10.100.144.245::255.255.255.0::eth0:on console=ttyS2,115200 init=/init mem=64M comm_v75 uart_dma android
Any further clues on what could be wrong for kernel not getting booted?
Regards, Unnamalai
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