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    <p>I have a problem about porting kernel from old SH4 to new SH4. Please let me show the difference between them.</p> <p>[Old SH4]<br> boot loader: redboot v2.0<br> kernel version: 2.4<br></p> <p>[New SH4]<br> boot loader: u-boot v2009.03<br> kernel version: 2.6<br></p> <p>In old SH4, a lot of source code is developed based on kernel 2.4, so porting kernel 2.4 to new SH4 looks easier than recompiling source codes in kernel 2.6. So I applied mkimage to the zImage which was developed for old SH4 as shown below.</p> <pre><code>mkimage -A sh -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x8c210000 -e 0x8c210000 -n 'Old kernel' -d zImage uImage </code></pre> <p>This image is loaded on new SH4 as shown below.</p> <pre><code>tftpboot 8c800000 uImage cp.b $(fileaddr) a0100000 $(filesize) bootm a0100000 </code></pre> <p>However, booting stops after "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel" and hangs. I found that the infinite loop happens at the below lines on kernel/head.S, but I suppose these lines have no problem because kernel/head.S is not customized and it works on old SH4.</p> <pre><code> ! Clear BSS area mov.l 3f, r1 ! __bss_start add #4, r1 mov.l 4f, r2 ! _end mov #0, r0 9: cmp/hs　r2, r1 bf/s 9b ! while (r1 &lt r2) mov.l　 r0,@-r2 </code></pre> <p>Thus, I guess this problem comes from environment difference between old and new SH4. In old SH4, I execute fconfig command and set variables as shown below.</p> <pre><code>Load Linux Kernel & File System: true Linux Kernel Destination address: 0x8c210000 Linux Kernel Source address: 0x80140000 Linux Kernel Size: 0x100000 RAM disk Destination address: 0x8c360000 RAM disk Source address: 0x80140000 RAM disk Size: 0x400000 Modify Linux Kernel Parameter: true Linux Kernel base address: 0x8c001000 Linux Kernel ENTRY address: 0x8c210000 Linux Kernel INITRD size: 0xc00000 Linux Kernel INITRD start address: 0x360000 Linux Kernel loader type: 1 Linux Kernel mount root read only: 1 Linux Kernel original root device: 0x100 Linux Kernel RAM disk flags: 0 Linux Kernel Enable Virtual Terminal Console: false </code></pre> <p>I think I can set these parameters on new SH4, though u-boot doesn't have fconfig command. But I couldn't find how to set the parameters Linux Kernel Source address and Linux kernel base address. Is this related to the hang problem? Or any advice about what I should check next will be helpful since I am new to Linux embedded system.</p> <p>Thanks for your help.</p> <p>[Edited]<br> Below infomation is added to show printenv result on u-boot.<br><br> bootcmd=icache on<br> bootm a0100000<br> bootdelay=2<br> baudrate=115200<br> netmask=255.255.255.0<br> ipaddr=192.168.1.2<br> serverip=192.168.1.1<br> gatewayip=0.0.0.0<br> bootargs=console=ttySC1,115200,N,8 mem=32M ether=8,0x1300,0,0,eth0 video=e1356fb:system:ms104sh4,display:crt,bpp:8,800x600@60<br> stdin=serial<br> stdout=serial<br> stderr=serial<br></p>
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    1. COif you have access to the preboot envirnoment, you can use the uboot `setenv` command to set those. See http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootEnvVariables
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    2. COAre you sure it's an infinite loop? What are the register values? The code you posted is clearing RAM area. If the kernel load address is incorrect you could be erasing the memory location where the code is running. I had a similar problem though on the PowerPC platform. My problem turned out to be incorrect base addresses in the Linux config file.
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    3. COTo J-16 SDiZ: Thanks for your comment. First I thought I could set LINUX base & source address via u-boot environmental variable, but found no variables for them. Maybe I have to set them in a different way not in env variables.
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