Strange behavior with I2C on Sequoia board

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com
Fri Aug 22 00:33:24 EST 2008


On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> I would like to switch over to using a uImage rather than the cuboot.uImage.

Can you actually boot a plain uImage from U-Boot?

I've just gave it a try.  While arch/powerpc/boot/cuImage.sequoia boots fine,
after `make uImage', I get arch/powerpc/boot/uImage, but it doesn't boot:

| ## Booting image at 00100000 ...
|    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.27-rc4-dirty
|    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
|    Data Size:    1398827 Bytes =  1.3 MB
|    Load Address: 00000000
|    Entry Point:  00000000
|    Verifying Checksum ... OK
|    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Error: inflate() returned -3
| GUNZIP ERROR - must RESET board to recover
| 
| U-Boot 1.2.0-gc0c292b2 (Jun  5 2007 - 07:16:12)

and I'm back to U-Boot...

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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