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
next prev parent 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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