Android image and some instructions

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Fri Dec 5 09:08:25 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Andy Green wrote:
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|> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
|> | Latest uImage-android seems to be broken - uboot gives Bad data CRC
|> | message with it.
|> | Can anybody post some older uImage-android ?
|>
|> No this is caused by U-Boot's default environment only pulling in 2MB
|> from the NAND partition for kernel.  Increase it like this ->
|>
|> setenv bootcmd setenv bootargs \${bootargs_base} \${mtdparts}\; nand
|> read.e 0x32000000 kernel 0x300000\; bootm 0x32000000
|> saveenv
|>
| Is this only with older u-boot images? I've had no issues with kernel
size.

Depends on your U-Boot env... some early devices went out with the env
set to pull 8MB, maybe that's the case for you.

FWIW Qi goes and examines the top of the kernel image and extracts the
actual length, then pulls the correct amount to get the whole image.

- -Andy


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