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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Mihaela Grigore <grigore.mihaela@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux under emulator
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:30:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40808051030g5aeaf166q6146014e30b80982@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78ef7ce10808051028r14aa7973t3aaa3bc92132cbba@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Mihaela Grigore
<grigore.mihaela@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I intend to run a 2.6 linux kernel under a powerpc emulator, what
> is needed to make a minimal bootable system? I mean, apart from the
> kernel itself and busybox, do I need a bootloader ? If no actual
> hardware is used and the kernel can reside directly in ram from the
> emulator's point of view (so no relocation is needed), what else is to
> be done before the kernel can start running ?

Look at the firmware linux documentation.  It should tell you
everything you need.

http://www.landley.net/code/firmware/

g.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05 17:28 linux under emulator Mihaela Grigore
2008-08-05 17:30 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-08-08 18:12   ` Rob Landley

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