From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:06:33 -0800 Received: from jester.ti.com ([192.94.94.1]:28824 "EHLO jester.ti.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:06:07 -0800 Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.103]) by jester.ti.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBDH61923339; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:06:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00569; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:06:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from dlep3.itg.ti.com (dlep3-maint.itg.ti.com [157.170.133.16]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00555; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:06:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from ti.com (IDENT:bbrown@bbrowndt.sc.ti.com [158.218.100.194]) by dlep3.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01896; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:06:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A37ACC9.82476B96@ti.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:07:21 -0700 From: Brady Brown Organization: Texas Instruments X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicu Popovici CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: YAMON. References: <3A37B34B.69C1BF2@isratech.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Nicu Popovici wrote: > Hello , > > Does anyone know how can I do to start a Linux on a mips board ( ATLAS ) > without using YAMON. I just want to turn on the mips and to boot in > Linux . Is that possible ? > > Regards, > Nicu It is possible. Look in Atlas Users Manual Sec 5.2 . Dip switch S1-1 controls booting from either Monitor Flash or System Flash. If you boot from System Flash then the monitor is effectively removed. You would of course have to have your own boot-up code, PCI enumerator, hardware init, kernel loader, kernel image, etc. in the System Flash all hooked to the reset vector for this to work. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brady Brown (bbrown@ti.com) Work:(801)619-6103 Texas Instruments: Broadband Access Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~