Does bootldr support bzImage kernels?
John G Dorsey wrote:
> Michael Artz wrote:
>
>> What I noticed was the first line ... the "loading flash region
>> bootldr". When I try and do a 'load kernel', I don't get that line, and
>> it just tells me to:
>>
>> boot> load kernel
>> ready for xmodem download..
>>
>> I don't know if that helps any, but it might
>
>
> `load kernel' takes a different path (load_kernel()) than the other
> `load' variants (command_load_flash_region()) on its way to
> program_flash_region(); that's why you don't see the "loading flash
> region" message.
>
> If you're using minicom, the xmodem progress "window" may be obscuring
> error messages produced by bootldr after the transfer. For example, if
> you try to download a kernel image which is too large for its partition
> (0x80000 bytes on 28F128J3A StrataFlash parts), bootldr will refuse to
> commit it to the flash.
>
> (There are a number of solutions to the size problem, if that is indeed
> the culprit here. The easiest is just to increase your use of
> modularization when you build your kernel, but you can also just adjust
> the partition map for your flash parts in bootldr/btflash.c, taking care
> to perform the corresponding update in the kernel MTD drivers, if you
> use them.)
>
> -jd
>
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