Re: problems with ppc405 on 2.6.11.8.

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:37:02PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:

A customer of mine has a PPC405 system, which was based upon the
Embedded Planet design. It runs U-boot 0.4.0, and the system currently
ships with a kernel based upon Timesys 2.4.18. 

We are in the process of upgrading to 2.6.11. (linus, not timesys. We
see no value add from timesys)

The major stumbling block was using boot/simple/{head,relocate}.S,
and the inftrees.c. For reasons we do not understand, the system would
fail in huft_build() when (setting up for) decompressing.  We traced
through this using our bdi2000, after failing with puts() additions. 

If you are booting off of U-boot, why are you trying to boot a
zImage?  You should be booting a uImage which doesn't use the
bootwrapper glue code in arch/ppc/boot/. Load the right image 
and you will avoid all of this.

-Matt