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

[Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>]

Am Sonntag 11 März 2012, 22:29:53 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> 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.

I guess all three points may be valid for any kirkwood based board. Also keep 
in mind, that vendor branches of uboot may not be affected from this bug. Eg. 
i had a longer discussion on the arm lkml about this issue and Nicolas Pitre 
wasnt able to reproduce the bug on his boards, which had some uboot version 
patched by the vendor.

BTW, i don't think this bug is kirkwood specific.

-- 
Michael