Jachym Holecek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > It seems that u-boot cannot recognize NetBSD.
> > Does anyone has experience about using u-boot to
> boot
> > NetBSD on pxa255 board? If so, please tell me how
> to
> > do, thanks in advance.
> 
> It's been a while since I played with u-boot (and it
> wasn't on PXA), but
> 
>   - You can try to load NetBSD as an ELF image
> (u-boot can do this,
>     but I didn't try AFAICR).

I just tried to load NetBSD as an ELF, 
it doesn't work.

# file netbsd
/root/netbsd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version
1 (ARM), statically linked, not stripped
# 
...
## Total Size      = 0x0030c74e = 3196750 Bytes
## Start Addr      = 0xA2000000                
U-Boot> boot                      
## Booting image at a2000000 ...
Bad Magic Number                

>   - Or have a look how mkimage could be used. From
> toplevel README:
> 
>     [...]
>     The "uImage" build target uses a special tool
> (in 'tools/mkimage') to
>     encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with
> header  information,
>     CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is
> what we are doing:
>     [...]
> 
> It would also be useful to know how exactly does the
> boot (or upload?)
> fail.

Would you tell me how to use mkimage to convert it for
NetBSD? Thanks. I still have no idea...
> 
> 	Regards,
> 		-- Jachym Holecek

Thanks again.

-kt


		
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