From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f742FZL23938 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:15:35 -0700 Received: from smtp.huawei.com (nszx104.121.szptt.net.cn [202.104.121.208] (may be forged)) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f742FXV23931 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:15:33 -0700 Received: from hechendong11752 ([10.105.33.128]) by smtp.huawei.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GHITZ201.I0M for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:09:02 +0800 Message-ID: <000701c11c8b$77e039e0$8021690a@huawei.com> From: "machael thailer" To: Subject: Where is the first entry point for linux-mips boot? Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:16:27 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hello,all: Now I plan to port linux on our mips-based board. Since it is the first time for me to work on linux-mips, I have several questions to ask: There are many many subdirectories in arch/mips, I don't know where is the FIRST entry point for embedded linux-mips boot process? I find that there is "kernel_entry" in arch/mips/kernel/head.S. I know this is the entry point for linux kernel ,but it is not the FIRST entry point for embedded linux-mips boot process. So my questions is : After the board initializations finish, it should load linux kernel into RAM and jump there . Just before it runs the linux kernel, who calls "kernel_entry"? I don't know whether I have expressed my meaning apparently. Hope you can understand me. Thank you very much. machael thailer From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <000701c11c8b$77e039e0$8021690a@huawei.com> From: "machael thailer" Subject: Where is the first entry point for linux-mips boot? Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:16:27 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20010804021627.V85WeG6kIODzQjloC1qUHcN1PzGQLQ-in4P41bzl10Q@z> Hello,all: Now I plan to port linux on our mips-based board. Since it is the first time for me to work on linux-mips, I have several questions to ask: There are many many subdirectories in arch/mips, I don't know where is the FIRST entry point for embedded linux-mips boot process? I find that there is "kernel_entry" in arch/mips/kernel/head.S. I know this is the entry point for linux kernel ,but it is not the FIRST entry point for embedded linux-mips boot process. So my questions is : After the board initializations finish, it should load linux kernel into RAM and jump there . Just before it runs the linux kernel, who calls "kernel_entry"? I don't know whether I have expressed my meaning apparently. Hope you can understand me. Thank you very much. machael thailer