Re: [U-Boot] u-boot fails to uncompress a "gzip'ed -9" kernel

Hi Wolfgang, thanks for your reply. Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Are you sure it is only an issue of gzip compression, and not for > example of image sizes? > The "gzip -8" compressed kernel, which does work, is obviously bigger (vmlinux.bin.gz=1717766 (i.s.o. 1717544). Uncompressed size is unchange

[U-Boot] u-boot fails to uncompress a "gzip'ed -9" kernel

A certain powerpc 2.6.28 kernel (which is by default compressed with gzip -9) fails to load with u-boot v2008.10. It results in a machine check stop. I'm testing on a MPC8313-RDB. Btw. the linux-2.6.28/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper script takes care of compressing with "gzip -9". On my host linux pc