boot cuImage on an old u-boot

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Aug 22 02:15:05 EST 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:09:58PM +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> I have here a mpc8540ads board and a u-boot 1.0.0. I've build the
> defconfig for the board and I tried to boot the genarated
> cuImage.mpc8540ads image. After the bootm command I see just
> 
> |8540> bootm 1000000
> |## Booting image at 01000000 ...
> |   Image Name:   Linux-2.6.26
> |   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> |   Data Size:    1232711 Bytes =  1.2 MB
> |   Load Address: 00400000
> |   Entry Point:  004005ac
> |   Verifying Checksum ... OK
> |   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> |
> 
> I don't see the device tree fixups printfs, so crash happend quite
> early. Anyone an idea what I could have done wrong?

Make sure the device tree contains /chosen/linux,stdout-path.

-Scott



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