From: ibr@radix50.net (Baurzhan Ismagulov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Q] Booting kernel from NFS?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:21:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322112118.GD5456@radix50.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103201612142509289@gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 04:13:04PM +0800, Chen Wenjie wrote:
> I am debuging some issues on an arm-arch board.
> now, I have to compile the whole kernel, download zImage to the target board
> and reboot the board again and again. Since the relations between the
> source files are complex, it is difficult to just write a module for insmod/rmmod.
>
> My question is: is there any way to boot the kernel from NFS? so we can
> use zImage on the host machine through an ethernet/USB cable. Then we needn't
> download the zImage file to the target board when we debug it.
>
> Is there any bootloader with this feature? Any comments?
> (now I use bootloader LK("Little Kernel"))
U-Boot can download the kernel over TFTP.
With kind regards,
--
Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-22 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 18:43 usb host port3 on pxa310? Chen Wenjie
2010-08-07 13:42 ` Igor Grinberg
2010-08-07 18:24 ` 陈闻杰
2010-08-08 1:22 ` Chen Wenjie
2010-08-08 6:02 ` Igor Grinberg
2010-08-21 19:31 ` Chen Wenjie
2010-08-22 8:20 ` Chen Wenjie
2010-08-23 6:29 ` Igor Grinberg
2010-08-26 19:28 ` David Hunter
2010-08-29 7:25 ` Igor Grinberg
2011-03-20 8:13 ` [Q] Booting kernel from NFS? Chen Wenjie
2011-03-22 11:21 ` Baurzhan Ismagulov [this message]
2011-03-22 12:21 ` Steve Chen
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