Booting uncompressed kernel image

[Luotao Fu]

Matteo Fortini wrote:
> Hi all,
> I built an uncompressed uImage using mkimage --no-gzip -C none in the
> wrapper scripts.
> Only, u-boot recognizes it as uncompressed and launches the kernel
> properly (it's around 4MB), but in the end linux just prints
> OK and stops.
Powerpc make compress the bin image with gzip first, before it generates
the image header.  If the u-boot reads the image header properly doesn't
mean that the kernel is really unpacked.
>
> Has anyone done the same?
me ;-) I did it with a mpc5200b board and linux 2.6.23. You can try the
patch attached to this mail. It worked for me[TM]. ;-)

Cheers
Luotao Fu

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