Bug#658759: u-boot: fails to boot compressed 3.2.y kernels

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ben Hutchings wrote[1]:

> My understanding is that in general we cannot assume that uboot is
> upgradable at all, because:
>
> 1. Linux may not have access to the flash partition containing it.
> 2. The factory-installed uboot may have board-specific setup code which
> is not included in mainline uboot.
> 3. A power failure during an upgrade may be unrecoverable without
> specialist hardware.
>
> Do we know that none of these apply to the Kirkwood platform?  If not,
> the kernel must retain compatibility with older versions of uboot.

Cc-ing submitters, Ian, Michael, and Prafulla in case they have hints.
Thanks to all for your work on this so far.  [1] has context.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/658759