From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:50:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from www.clearcore.com ([IPv6:::ffff:69.20.152.109]:40614 "EHLO sam.clearcore.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:50:35 +0100 Received: from clearcore.com (clrsrv.clearcore.com [192.168.1.1]) by sam.clearcore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CAC136B3; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:50:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3F200047.2050506@clearcore.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:50:31 -0600 From: Joe George User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kesselring Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: boot requirements References: In-Reply-To: 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: 2903 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: joeg@clearcore.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips I found Jun's porting howto to be an immense help. http://linux.junsun.net/porting-howto/ I found it easier to port Linux to my board than Yamon. But I guess it probably depends a lot on the kind of port. Joe David Kesselring wrote: > I am trying to determine what has to be included in our boot code to start > linux. I didn't think I needed to port yamon. What does yamon or pmon > provide for starting or debugging(gdb) linux? Does the processor need to > be in a specific state or context before jumping from the boot code to the > linux downloaded image? If someone can point me to a simple example, I > would greatly appreciate it. > > David Kesselring > Atmel MMC > dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com > 919-462-6587 >