Android image and some instructions

Jim Ancona jim at anconafamily.com
Fri Dec 5 03:25:52 CET 2008


Sean McNeil wrote:
> 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 ?
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>> 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.

I think all the andy-tracking or stable-tracking kernels built with the 
default configuration are larger than 2MB. Wasn't your most recent 
kernel originally named uImage-tracking? It's about 2.4MB.

Jim




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