Problem in booting PPC with kernel 2.5.44

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Nov 15 02:11:36 EST 2002


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:52:59PM +0500, Atm account wrote:

> Hello All,
>   We are porting Linux 2.5.44 for our custom board which has
>  603e processor..
>     We are using the arch/ppc/boot/simple bootloader with minor
> modifications. At the end of boot-code relocation to 8 Mb, the code jumps
> to the relocated code and thereafter
> does the decompression (decompress_kernel)of the vmlinux image to physical
> address 0 and jumps to the 0th location (3 nops followed by code). It is
> from here that early_init is called.

Just wondering, what modifications did you have to make to
arch/ppc/boot/simple?

>     Now the problem is ... the kernel has been linked at 3GB and a call in
> kernel/head.S which says ---

How did you change things to have it link at 3GB?

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