On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Aaro Koskinen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > Tony Lindgren <t...@atomide.com> writes:
> > > FYI, looks like we've started hitting some booter -l kernel size limit
> > > in addition to booter -f size limit.. Now kernels built with
> > > omap2plus_defconfig won't boot on n900 any longer.
> 
> I guess you are seeing it just hanging at "Uncompressing Linux... done,
> booting the kernel."?
> 
> > > I guess the way around that is to install the u-boot loader package.
> > 
> > Alternatively CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y will get the kernel zImage size back
> > within size limits that will boot on n900.
> 
> Hmm, I'm a bit puzzled. For me, .38 works but .39-rc1 does not, and I
> can't see any "special" limit exceeded. Also LZMA is broken:
> 
>       Uncompressing Linux...
> 
>       LZMA data is corrupt
> 
>       -- System halted
> 
> I did some bisecting, and with the following commit reverted -rc1 works:
> 
>       commit d239b1dc093d551046a909920b5310c1d1e308c1
>       Author: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org>
>       Date:   Mon Feb 21 04:57:38 2011 +0100
> 
>       ARM: 6746/1: remove the 4x expansion presumption while decompressing
> the kernel
> 
> With the revert, also bigger gzipped kernel works.

OK I will have a look.


Nicolas
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