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From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: florian@openwrt.org
Cc: lucky.veeramallu@gmail.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: in mips how to change the start address to the new second boot loader ?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:59:29 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090420.085929.-1089997132.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904201100.39164.florian@openwrt.org>

In message: <200904201100.39164.florian@openwrt.org>
            Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> writes:
: Hi,
: 
: Le Wednesday 15 April 2009 08:09:01 nagalakshmi veeramallu, vous avez écrit :
: > Hi ,
: >  I have a KMC board with mips VR4131 processor. The target board already
: >  having cmon boot loader on flash. Now I need to put my yamon boot loader
: >  which I modified according to the requirement on the flash. As we know
: > MIPS have fixed starting address 0xbfc00000, how to change this address to
: > other address so that after power on it can enter to the new address (boot
: > loader).
: 
: You cannot indeed change the boot address, but you can place a routine, or 
: even a bootloader at 0x1fc00000 which jumps to an arbitrary address.

I tried to tell him that in the FreeBSD/mips list, but he wouldn't
listen to me there either...  The simple fact is that the Vr41xx
processors cannot move their boot address at all....

Warner

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-20 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15  6:09 in mips how to change the start address to the new second boot loader ? nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-15  6:09 ` nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-20  9:00 ` Florian Fainelli
2009-04-20 14:59   ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
2009-04-21  6:50     ` nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-21  6:50       ` nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-21 13:25       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2009-04-21 13:46         ` nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-21 13:46           ` nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-21 14:10           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-04-21 14:10             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-04-21 14:20             ` nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-21 14:20               ` nagalakshmi veeramallu
2009-04-21 14:31               ` Kevin D. Kissell
2009-04-23  9:01               ` Florian Fainelli

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