[Buildroot] Booting with ramdisk

[Guillaume Dargaud]

On Sunday 27 March 2011 23:12:51 Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  Guillaume> The kernel stops instantly without even a blip on the
>  Guillaume> console. A debugger reveals that it stops at 0x401718... I
>  Guillaume> have no idea what's going on at this stage.
> 
> Strange. What architecture/system is this? How much did the (compressed)
> kernel grow? Perhaps it's too big / you'll need to load it higher. For
> most archs, the kernel want to decompress into address 0, so if you load
> it too low, you might end up overwriting the compressed kernel as you're
> decompressing it.

Absolutely correct. I used:
powerpc-linux-objcopy --change-addresses 0x400000 simpleImage.virtex405-ml405.elf reloc800000.elf
And it booted fine afterwards at the new 0x800000 load address.
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Guillaume Dargaud
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