uImage Load Address Issue

[Paul Boddie]

On Friday 21. July 2017 20.19.09 Daniel (Xiaolong) Wang wrote:
> 
> I’m testing L4re on a customized I.MX6 Solo-X-4 board. I found that the
> fiasco kernel (the simple hello world example built into an uimage) cannot
> be load by the U-boot. It shows “data abort". The reason I guess it is due
> to different loading address.

My own experiences with U-Boot are that it should be able to deduce the 
correct addresses for loading and execution from the image. However, you need 
to be aware of the memory that U-Boot is using itself because overwriting that 
is obviously going to cause problems.

I imagine that it is also worthwhile to know exactly what U-Boot is doing to 
initialise the machine. My experiences, admittedly with another architecture, 
involved U-Boot in different forms that did different levels of initialisation 
depending on where it had been installed (NAND, SD, and so on).

[...]

>   Start address: 0x801000000
> 
> I think it is still related to the different load address. But I do not
> know how to fix it. I would really appreciate if someone can point me to a
> right direction.

The above start address looks too "long": it has more than eight digits and 
won't be a 32-bit value any more. Maybe that doesn't make a difference on your 
platform, though.

Paul