From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:25:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 154-84-51-66.reonbroadband.com ([IPv6:::ffff:66.51.84.154]:56192 "EHLO tibook.netx4.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:25:14 +0000 Received: from embeddededge.com (IDENT:dan@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tibook.netx4.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1KLOeP01260; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:24:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3E554798.5060403@embeddededge.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:24:40 -0500 From: Dan Malek Organization: Embedded Edge, LLC. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Popov CC: Jun Sun , Tibor Polgar , Mark Salter , krishnakumar@naturesoft.net, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk image on flash. References: <200302201135.09154.krishnakumar@naturesoft.net> <1045765647.30379.262.camel@zeus.mvista.com> <3E552CDF.ECD08EEF@freehandsystems.com> <20030220194115.2A21378A6D@deneb.localdomain> <3E55342D.6E1D36FF@freehandsystems.com> <3E553C03.10207@embeddededge.com> <20030220124456.G7466@mvista.com> <1045774664.16543.307.camel@zeus.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 1492 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: dan@embeddededge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Pete Popov wrote: > Me too. Keep in mind too that there is no "standard" zImage support in > mips right now. I'm not sure what Dan is using for the zImage support, I took what you had started, copied lots of stuff from the same thing I did for PowerPC a long time ago, and actually improved on that (I think) :-). It seems every Alchemy processor I work with has a different boot rom, so like PowerPC this gives us the ability to also format kernel calling conventions in addition to zImage/initrd booting and flexibility. > that but that's another patch that needs to make its way in the source > tree. I'll get it there :-) > .... I added zImage support in the form of an arch/mips/zboot > directory and supporting files, but that never made it in linux-mips.org > because it added yet another copy of zlib (my argument was, so what, all > the other arches do it). Yeah, I know about zlib. I have "fixed" this more than once on PowerPC to use the kernel zlib, but it still hasn't stuck in the source tree :-) I'll try to get it right when I do a MIPS patch. Thanks. -- Dan