Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-13 Thread Scott Wood
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:52:00 +0200 Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > Scott Wood wrote on 2010/09/13 21:21:33: > > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:19:34 +0200 > > Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Dear "Ira W. Snyder", > > > > > > > > In message <20100910181022.ga18...@ovro.caltech.edu> you wrote: > >

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-13 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Scott Wood wrote on 2010/09/13 21:21:33: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:19:34 +0200 > Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > > > Dear "Ira W. Snyder", > > > > > > In message <20100910181022.ga18...@ovro.caltech.edu> you wrote: > > > > > > > > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I tr

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-13 Thread Scott Wood
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:19:34 +0200 Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > Dear "Ira W. Snyder", > > > > In message <20100910181022.ga18...@ovro.caltech.edu> you wrote: > > > > > > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I try and > > > convert the other boards too? How should I know

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-11 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
> > Dear "Ira W. Snyder", > > In message <20100910181022.ga18...@ovro.caltech.edu> you wrote: > > > > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I try and > > convert the other boards too? How should I know which boards are safe? > > Grep for CONFIG_E300? > > I think we should try

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-10 Thread Kim Phillips
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:53:56 +0200 Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Kim Phillips, > > In message <20100910132606.cb2debcd.kim.phill...@freescale.com> you wrote: > > > > > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I try and > > > convert the other boards too? How should I know which

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kim Phillips, In message <20100910132606.cb2debcd.kim.phill...@freescale.com> you wrote: > > > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I try and > > convert the other boards too? How should I know which boards are safe? > > Grep for CONFIG_E300? > > CONFIG_MPC83xx, since

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear "Ira W. Snyder", In message <20100910181022.ga18...@ovro.caltech.edu> you wrote: > > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I try and > convert the other boards too? How should I know which boards are safe? > Grep for CONFIG_E300? I think we should try and update all bo

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-10 Thread Kim Phillips
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:23 -0700 "Ira W. Snyder" wrote: > Would you prefer a patch only for the MPC8349EMDS, or should I try and > convert the other boards too? How should I know which boards are safe? > Grep for CONFIG_E300? CONFIG_MPC83xx, since E300 gets hits for some mpc51xx parts. Not to

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-10 Thread Ira W. Snyder
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:29:48PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote: > Hi Ira & Wolfgang, > > On Friday 10 September 2010 13:18:55 Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > Does anyone know the true maximum value for CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ on Linux > > > (if one even exists)? > > > > The CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ thing is as

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-10 Thread Stefan Roese
Hi Ira & Wolfgang, On Friday 10 September 2010 13:18:55 Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Does anyone know the true maximum value for CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ on Linux > > (if one even exists)? > > The CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ thing is as old as U-Boot and PPCBoot > exists, i. e. well over a decade. IIRC there wa

Re: [U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-10 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear "Ira W. Snyder", In message <20100909225241.gi3...@ovro.caltech.edu> you wrote: > > On most (all?) 83xx boards, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is set to 8MB. The comment > says: ... > Does anyone know the true maximum value for CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ on Linux > (if one even exists)? The CONFIG_SYS_BOOT

[U-Boot] 83xx fails to boot with moderately sized kernels

2010-09-09 Thread Ira W. Snyder
Hello all, I am using vanilla U-Boot on an MPC8349EMDS board with 256MB of RAM. I have been tracking down a kernel hang very early during boot, and have traced it back to a U-Boot bug. The bug has to do with the way CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is set. Please read through this thread for more lots more i