Hi, We have ported u-boot on a mpc8260 based design of ours. We try to boot linux on it (built with TQM8260_defconfig), as a first step. But when we use the u-boot "bootm" command to boot linux from flash, we get nothing displayed after the kernel is uncompressed and jumped into. I know there is a FAQ: http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxHangsAfterUncompressingKernel But I don't think it applies as using the BDI2000 we can trace the kernel running all the way until around the point where it starts the init process. We were surprised to see that a "make uImage" would use the vmlinux.gz kernel (linked at 0xc000.0000) and not the zImage.elf(linked at 0x0040.0000), which includes the files in arch/ppc/boot/simple. The serial console is initialized and handled in ./arch/ppc/boot/simple/m8260_tty.c, and we suspect that since this is not included in vmlinux, that is the reason why we don't see any messages. Should we try to somehow add it to vmlinux (if this is possible)?
I know this is not the list, but why is the linux make file is generating these two different files? My guess is that zImage is for systems with no u-boot bootloader. Thanks a lot, -jf simon
[bmc@Linux188 linux-2.6.15.1]$ make CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/compile.h CHK usr/initramfs_list UIMAGE arch/ppc/boot/images/uImage Image Name: Linux-2.6.15.1 Created: Tue Mar 14 07:01:49 2006 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 869873 Bytes = 849.49 kB = 0.83 MB Load Address: 0x00000000 Entry Point: 0x00000000 Image: arch/ppc/boot/images/uImage is ready AS arch/ppc/boot/simple/head.o AS arch/ppc/boot/simple/relocate.o CC arch/ppc/boot/simple/misc-embedded.o CC arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.o arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c:29: warning: 'bdinfo' defined but not used arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c:415: warning: 'clk_8260' defined but not use d arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c:457: warning: 'clk_8280' defined but not use d CC arch/ppc/boot/simple/m8260_tty.o ppc_6xx-objcopy -O elf32-powerpc \ --add-section=.image=arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.gz \
--set-section-flags=.image=contents,alloc,load,readonly,data \ arch/ppc/boot/simple/dummy.o arch/ppc/boot/simple/image.o ppc_6xx-ld -m elf32ppc -T /home/bmc/tools/eldk4.0/ppc_6xx/usr/src/linux-2.6.15.1 /arch/ppc/boot/ld.script -Ttext 0x00400000 -Bstatic -o arch/ppc/boot/simple/zvml inux arch/ppc/boot/simple/head.o arch/ppc/boot/simple/relocate.o arch/ppc/boot/s imple/misc-embedded.o arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.o arch/ppc/boot/simple/m 8260_tty.o arch/ppc/boot/simple/image.o arch/ppc/boot/common/lib.a arch/ppc/boot /lib/lib.a ppc_6xx-objcopy -O elf32-powerpc arch/ppc/boot/simple/zvmlinux arch/ppc/boot/sim ple/zvmlinux -R .comment -R .stab \ -R .stabstr -R .ramdisk cp -f arch/ppc/boot/simple/zvmlinux arch/ppc/boot/images/zImage.elf rm -f arch/ppc/boot/simple/zvmlinux Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST [bmc@Linux188 linux-2.6.15.1]$
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