Re: making debs for u-boot kernels
On Thursday 25 July 2019 15:50:08 Tixy wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 12:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Possibly good to know, but is not at all helpfull when you "make
> > uImage" in a kernel src tree's top level directory and it terminates
> > with a missing numerical argument, which I'm, assuming is the offset
> > from lsn0 in the dos /boot partition of the u-sd card
>
> No idea where you get these sort of ideas. I'd assume the missing
> number is the value for the image load address, a header field to tell
> U-Boot whereabouts in RAM to load the kernel.
>
> I suggest you do some more research. Googling for "linux make uimage"
> throws up lots of stack exchange questions which may help get you
> started. Here's one about setting what I think your missing numeric
> argument is...
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31725605/building-kernel-uimage-us
>ing-loadaddr
There is good data there, but stackoverflow has yet to allow me to print
more than a truncated page 1. The other two links to pages that also
describe it reasonably well, have no such limitations.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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