watchdog vs inflate in zlib

Hi,

I got confirmation from my board "vendor" that:
"The watch dog is enabled by the boot monitor, so it must be handled by the
loader and by the kernel too."
At this point I do not know the watch dog's time out period.
The boot monitor is custom modified (by the board "vendor") pSOS bootloader
for which I do not have the code.
The compressed kernel image for Linux 2.6 is considerably larger than for
Linux 2.4 (which works fine) - perhaps I need to put more watch dog resets
into zlib code ... ? - Any advise on where to put those resets, etc. ?

Thanks,
Best Regards,
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: wd@denx.de [mailto:wd@denx.de]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:09 PM
To: Povolotsky, Alexander
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: inflate returned FFFFFFFD - what does this error exactly mean ?


Hi Alex,

in message
<313680C9A886D511A06000204840E1CF0A647439@whq-msgusr-02.pit.comms.marconi.co
m> you wrote:

After few days of wondering through debugging (and with 
great help) I fixed (by inserting watch dog resets into 
beginning of while loops in zlib functions) my first problem > - strange

reboot failures during decompression of

You know why I recommended U-Boot :-)

Now I am getting "controlled" failure (during the same 
decompression as described above):

I_BAD
return Z_DATA_ERROR
after zlib_inflate
inflate returned FFFFFFFD
exit

what does this error exactly mean ?

Most probably it means that the areas where the compressed  image  is stored
and   to  where  you  copy  the  uncompressed  code  to  are over-lapping.
Try storing the compressed image at  a  higher  address
(like 0x400000 or so).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk
-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Cunningham [mailto:Nigel.Cunningham@cyclades.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 5:45 PM
To: Povolotsky, Alexander
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org; linuxppc-embedded-bounces@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: inflate returned FFFFFFFD - what does this error exactly mean ?

Hi.

linuxppc-embedded-bounces@ozlabs.org wrote on 31/12/2004 09:27:53:

Hi,

After few days of wondering through debugging (and with
great help) I fixed (by inserting watch dog resets into 
beginning of  while loops in zlib functions) my first 
problem -strange reboot failures during decompression of
the kernel image by the bootloader.
However my luck expired beyond this fix so far ... ;-).
Now I am getting "controlled" failure (during the same 
decompression as described above):

I_BAD
return Z_DATA_ERROR
after zlib_inflate
inflate returned FFFFFFFD
exit

what does this error exactly mean ?

Going from include/linux/zlib.h, it is a data error: your compressed stream
has somehow been corrupted?

Regards,

Nigel
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