Am Montag, 14. März 2005 10.43 schrieb linay long: > Hello All, > > I am new to debugging linux kernel. I have an mpc8540 based board with > BDI2000. Now I am trying to debug Linux kernel.u-boot is the bootloader.The > steps I followed listed below.The problem I am facing is > > when I put break point at start_kernel address got from System.map, use > bootm with address where the uncompressed kernel downloaded (bootm > 0x200000, here I am not using the ramdisk) , booting the kernel is not > stopping. I mean it should stop at start_kernel function as I put break > point using BDI.Instead it is booting and trying to mount file system and > kernel panic is coming. > > Could any one help in this regard You probably will have more luck on the following list for embedded PowerPCs http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/ or the u-boot.sf.net
I had similar problems. So I remebered the following thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6751851&forum_id=12898 Best regards -- Niklaus Giger Wieshoschet 6 CH-8753 Mollis