>> It should be fine to just change it locally. It would be a problem to >> change it upstream for all boards, since some supported boards have >> only 16MB (or even 8MB) of RAM. > > I'll definitely try to change it locally first. Would a configurable > base address for the bootwrapper an acceptable solution?
I found the link_address in the wrapper shell script sets the _start address. But after changing it to 0x800000, the kernel failed to boot, shown below. There must be something also needs proper adjustment. What would that be? => bootm 4000000 ## Booting image at 04000000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.33.5 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 1757356 Bytes = 1.7 MB Load Address: 00800000 Entry Point: 00800554 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK Memory <- <0x0 0x8000000> (128MB) ENET0: local-mac-address <- 00:09:9b:01:58:64 CPU clock-frequency <- 0x7270e00 (120MHz) CPU timebase-frequency <- 0x7270e0 (8MHz) CPU bus-frequency <- 0x3938700 (60MHz) zImage starting: loaded at 0x00800000 (sp: 0x07d1cbd0) Allocating 0x3a15a4 bytes for kernel ... gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0080c000:0x00bd702c)...done 0x3886ec bytes Linux/PowerPC load: root=/dev/ram Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0xbe4300 Thanks a lot, -Shawn. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
