Re: Booting uncompressed kernel image

Matteo Fortini wrote:

Hi all,
I built an uncompressed uImage using mkimage --no-gzip -C none in the
wrapper scripts.
Only, u-boot recognizes it as uncompressed and launches the kernel
properly (it's around 4MB), but in the end linux just prints
OK and stops.

Powerpc make compress the bin image with gzip first, before it generates
the image header.  If the u-boot reads the image header properly doesn't
mean that the kernel is really unpacked.

Has anyone done the same?

me ;-) I did it with a mpc5200b board and linux 2.6.23. You can try the
patch attached to this mail. It worked for me[TM]. ;-)

Cheers
Luotao Fu

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