Hi, On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 22:36 +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > This has made my AR7[1] based Linksys WAG54Gv2 (16MB RAM and 4MB flash, > limited to a 768kB kernel) useful, finally...thanks! > > > I got it working (LZMA kernel) however you have hardcoded a lot of bits > in there. It looks to my uneducated eye most of the issues lie in that > getting a suitable PORT(x), KERNEL_START, KERNEL_SIZE, FREE_MEM_START > and FREE_MEM_END is non-trivial on the MIPS platform currently; > probably because of the lack of a generic lzma/gzip/bzip2 framework to > be used with. > > For me I used: > #define FREE_MEM_START CKSEG0ADDR(0x94a00000) > #define FREE_MEM_END CKSEG0ADDR(0x94f00000) > > I had to replace (you probably should move this from dbg.c to dbg.h): > #define PORT(offset) (CKSEG1ADDR(AR7_REGS_UART0) + (4 * offset)) > > The load address is awkward, but I replaced your 0x8100000 in the > Makefile with 0x94400000. > > Now, the big question is how to work this all out at compile time. :) > Thanks very much for your suggestion, just rewritten it and removed almost all of the hard-coded parts(except the size of the HEAP) and a new patch was sent out. and this new one _should_ work for the other MIPS-based machines if not missed something else. looking forward to your test result on AR7 with the new patch and welcome to comment to this new E-mail thread: [PATCH -v1] MIPS: add support for gzip/bzip2/lzma compressed kernel images > As a side note, I would personally leave the DEBUG non-optional and > turned on as it all disappears at runtime anyway, but I'm no kernel > developer :) ooh, in reality, I'm looking forward to the comment of Ralf and somebody else. to my point of view, this _debug_ interface is only need to help the developers of the other MIPS variants ensure this patch work for them. Thanks & Regards, Wu Zhangjin
