From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14rhjm-00069l-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:54:50 +0100 Received: from ns.sysgo.de ([213.68.67.98] helo=rob.devdep.sysgo.de) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14rhjk-00069f-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:54:49 +0100 From: Robert Kaiser Reply-To: rob@sysgo.de To: "Alex Lennon" Subject: RE: Elan SC520 - problem with MTD Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:43:00 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: Cc: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042316543802.01109@rob> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser@sysgo.de SYSGO RTS GmbH Am Pfaffenstein 14 phone: (49) 6136 9948-762 D-55270 Klein-Winternheim / Germany fax: (49) 6136 9948-10 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org