problems with ppc405 on 2.6.11.8.

[Matt Porter]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:37:02PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> A customer of mine has a PPC405 system, which was based upon the
> Embedded Planet design. It runs U-boot 0.4.0, and the system currently
> ships with a kernel based upon Timesys 2.4.18. 
> 
> We are in the process of upgrading to 2.6.11. (linus, not timesys. We
> see no value add from timesys)
> 
> The major stumbling block was using boot/simple/{head,relocate}.S,
> and the inftrees.c. For reasons we do not understand, the system would
> fail in huft_build() when (setting up for) decompressing.  We traced
> through this using our bdi2000, after failing with puts() additions. 

If you are booting off of U-boot, why are you trying to boot a
zImage?  You should be booting a uImage which doesn't use the
bootwrapper glue code in arch/ppc/boot/. Load the right image 
and you will avoid all of this.

-Matt