From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:59:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B7363.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.115.99]:43845 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:59:58 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i12Jxcex025465; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:59:38 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i12Jxbsp025464; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:59:37 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:59:37 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Karsten Merker , Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: MIPS Kernel size Message-ID: <20040202195937.GB24843@linux-mips.org> References: <1075215091.40167af364b77@imp1-a.free.fr> <20040202140925.GB22008@linux-mips.org> <20040202184325.GE913@excalibur.cologne.de> <20040202185726.GB23667@linux-mips.org> <20040202194622.GA25095@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4238 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > That would be possible - but would still leave all the other limitations > > of the original firmware such as not supporting netboots. Peter Horten > > seem to have worked on something better. > > Unles the second stage booter supports netboots. I don't know anything about > the Cobalt firmware, but just using it to load something like uBoot should be > possible, right? Oh, it boots everything as long as it's a compress ELF executable named /vmlinux.gz on a PC-style partitioned disk with an ext2 filesystem (must be revision 0!) on it's first partition or it uploaded with cu(1)'s send file command at 115200bps, 8N1. No luxury, whistles or bells at all. Ralf