Hi,

I need one clarification regarding load address, entry point inside the Kernel image & the address to where we load the image.

Assume, the image header is as below.

Image Name: Linux-2.6.38-10700-g846a497 Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 2064396 Bytes = 2 MiB Load Address: 80008000 Entry Point: 80008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK

And I load the image using loadb to address 0x80008000.

Will this work?. Because here Image->load_address == Load_address for u-boot. Now u-boot considers this as XIP Image and will not move os data which actually will be at 0x80008040 to 0x80008000

Please correct me if I am wrong

I have attached the console output for reference.

Thanks & regards Gururaja

CON_SOLE#iminfo

## Checking Image at 80008000 ... Legacy image found Image Name: Linux-2.6.38-10700-g846a497 Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 2064396 Bytes = 2 MiB Load Address: 80008000 Entry Point: 80008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK

CON_SOLE #bootm 0x80008000 * kernel: cmdline image address = 0x80008000 Boot reached stage 1 ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80008000 ... Boot reached stage 2 Boot reached stage 3 Image Name: Linux-2.6.38-10700-g846a497 Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 2064396 Bytes = 2 MiB Load Address: 80008000 Entry Point: 80008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Boot reached stage 4 Boot reached stage 5 Boot reached stage 6 kernel data at 0x80008040, len = 0x001f800c (2064396) Boot reached stage 14 ## No init Ramdisk ramdisk start = 0x00000000, ramdisk end = 0x00000000 XIP Kernel Image ... OK OK kernel loaded at 0x80008000, end = 0x8020000c Boot reached stage 7 images.os.start = 0x80008000, images.os.end = 0x8020004c images.os.load = 0x80008000, load_end = 0x8020000c Boot reached stage 8 Boot reached stage 15 ## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80008000) ...

Starting kernel ...