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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: "Teresa Gámez" <t.gamez@phytec.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AM335x: MLO image issue
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:30:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324063015.GR9742@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427123853-26983-1-git-send-email-t.gamez@phytec.de>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:17:32PM +0100, Teresa Gámez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we have encountered an issue in the AM335x MLO, which seems to depend on the 
> image size itself. The bootloader hangs up in the decompress_unlzo() function.
> The decompress_unlzo() function fails with "dest len longer than block size"
> and ends up in it's error function in an infinite loop.
> 
> As the error seems to depend in the image size, adding or removing random code
> makes the image working again.
> 
> We have seen this issue so far only with a MLO size of 98823 bytes and
> barebox.z size: 61003 bytes. But could reproduce it using different toolchains.
> 
> So we suspect this is an issue in the lzo code. 
> Syncing the lzo code with the kernel code, seems to help.
> For this we have attached a patch.
> But we are unsure if this is the solution to the bug we have.
> 
> Any ideas on this?

I have no idea how lzo works. I could apply the patch though, as it only
contains an update to the latest kernel code. Of course it would feel
better if we knew what we are doing.

Sascha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-23 15:17 Teresa Gámez
2015-03-23 15:17 ` [PATCH] lib/lzo: port lzo fix from upstream kernel Teresa Gámez
2015-03-24  8:26   ` Holger Schurig
2015-03-24  6:30 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2015-03-24  8:30   ` [PATCH] AM335x: MLO image issue Holger Schurig

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