Re: OMAP3: Linux Without a Boot Loader?

[Nishanth Menon <menon.nishanth@gmail.com>]

On 04/26/2010 07:22 PM, Juha Kuikka wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Nishanth Menon<nm@ti.com>  wrote:
>>
>> The final image looks as follows:
>>         +---------------------+
>>         | Configuration       |
>>         | Header              |
>>         +---------------------+
>>         | "Sty"               |
>>         +---------------------+
>>         | kernel piggy        |
>>         | bzImage             |
>>         +---------------------+
>>
> Looks very interesting! I was thinking of trying something like this
> after ELC but unfortunately real work got the better of me.
>
> This Configuration Header stuff looks very similar to what TI's
> Davinci-chips use. They call it AIS but from a short dive into
> omap-u-boot-utils it is very similar, encoded commands to mask ROM
> code to initialize HW and load image(s).
>
> Now I need to find some time to do this with the Beagle.
>
> This may be a stupid question but is the CH format documented somewhere?

Yep, I had blogged about it some time back:
http://nishanthmenon.blogspot.com/2009/05/configuration-header-no-more-x-loader.html
You can find more about CH and references there, and yes, Beagle is one 
of the first platforms I had working :)

Regards,
Nishanth Menon