RE: Elan SC520 - problem with MTD

[Robert Kaiser <rob@sysgo.de>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 you wrote: 
> I'm looking at this myself at the moment - the simplest solution is to
> perform the hook,
> load a zImage into low mem and let the Linux startup code handle the nasty
> protected
> mode bits 'n' pieces. Works fine for me under 2.2. Unfortunately I really
> can't seem to
> manage to get 2.4 down to < 500Kb so I need bzImage which means that - yes -
> there is some protected mode support required. Alternatively it might be
> possible to
> throw the kernel up to 0x100000 using 32-bit real mode. I need to check on
> this....

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, have a look at our GPLed ROM loader.

ftp://ftp.sysgo.de/pub/elinos/1.0/updates/rolo_1.1_src.tar.gz

It loads a bzimage using 32-bit real mode. It is written mostly in C, but it
doesn't compile  with gcc (you need bcc). 

Rob

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