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From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: boot/simple in ROM?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:32:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030424133222.B8490@borg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EA81B3F.9080709@embeddededge.com>; from dan@embeddededge.com on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:13:35PM -0400


On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> The other really nice thing about these bootloaders, compressed
> kernels, and attached initrd, is you can boot the identical image
> from all "devices."  For example, during development you can tftp
> load the image, get everything working, then place the exact same
> bits into a flash rom.  Simply jump to the first location of the
> image and it will boot from flash.

Yes, but disappointingly the ppc/boot/simple I am using (from 2.4
devel) won't run from ROM.  Is there a better boot loader I should be
using?

Thanks,

-kb

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-24 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-24 16:33 boot/simple in ROM? Kent Borg
2003-04-24 17:13 ` Dan Malek
2003-04-24 17:32   ` Kent Borg [this message]
2003-04-24 17:49     ` Mark A. Greer
2003-04-24 18:41       ` Dan Malek
2003-04-24 18:29   ` emanuel stiebler
     [not found] <00032EDD.C22236@borg.org>
2003-04-24 17:44 ` Jerry Van Baren
2003-04-24 18:02   ` Mark A. Greer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-24 18:06 Kerl, John
2003-04-24 19:15 ` Kent Borg
2003-04-25 12:53 Wells, Charles
2003-04-25 14:48 ` Dan Malek

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