anubhav rakshit wrote: > I have PXA-255 based board with ArmBoot monitor.The kernel > image(vmlinux) > is stored on the Flash.The boot loader copies vmlinux from the flash into > the RAM.In my case the RAM starts from 0xa0000000,so as suggested in the > kernel documentation i copy the kernel to 0xa0008000 leaving 32K.After > this > i give a "go 0xa0008000" which essentially should start > executing the > kernel; but nothing happens.But when i write all 0's(zero's) into the > SDRAM ..(offcourse i take care that i don't overwrite the bootloader > itself) > and then give a "go 0xa0008000" command .. things work smoothly and i am > able to boot up the kernel,can anyone explain the reason for this > behaviour? It seems that your setup copies some initialized data to RAM and expects that area of uninitialized RAM to be zeroed. William -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
