From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20040824100145.58250.qmail@web15608.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:01:45 +0800 (CST) From: Song Sam Subject: Re: How to port ppc-linux to new custom boards? (virtexII) To: Patrick Huesmann Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <27642.1093338875@www70.gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Patrick Huesmann wrote£º > > > 3) Is there a way to get a self-decompressing kernel image? > > > > Yes. look at arc/ppc/boot/simple for some targets which have a > > self-decompressing kernel. (Amongst which is our port to the Insight > > V2PRO board). > > Hmm. The denx tutorial states that the bootloader *must* decompress > the kernel. If that's not true (anymore), then I might not have to use > u-boot as second stage bootloader. There isn't *MUST* decompress in U-Boot because U-Boot can boot compressed and unconpressed kernel respectively.In addition, if using U-Boot as second stage bootloader,the process couldn't easier than porting U-Boot on your custom board. I never thought a so-called boot loader couldn't boot a standard linux kernel.:-) Good luck! Sam ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/