Bug#658759: u-boot: fails to boot compressed 3.2.y kernels
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 10:32 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:41:57AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > One unfortunate wrinkle with the factory supplied image is that it
> > reuses the GuruPlug machine id instead of defining a new one. This has
> depending on how old the factory supplied U-Boot is, it supports
> overwriting the machine id by setting the environment variable machid to
> the desired value (in hex).
Right, I only discovered this feature after I'd switched to the Debian
u-boot with the correct machid. IIRC the factory supplied one was Circa
early 2009.
> > the potential to make thing a bit tricky and is the reason I switched to
> > the Debian supplied u-boot ASAP. Fortunately the upstream Dreamplug
> > support is now being implemented via DT so I suppose this is not going
> > to be an issue in practice.
> Yeah, with dt the machine is ignored AFAICT.
I've not tried byt perhaps only if you use CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB or
have a DT aware u-boot otherwise u-boot is going to place atags for
whichever machine id it thinks it supports.
Ian.
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