From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: John Linn <John.Linn@xilinx.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] powerpc: Xilinx: adding virtex5 powerpc 440 support
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:52:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080629055248.GH13876@secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080624210750.A21E314006F@mail88-wa4.bigfish.com>
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:07:48PM -0600, John Linn wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> It appears that you designed the simpleImage around Xilinx FPGAs.
Yes.
> Since we have to initialize the 16550 UART in the bootstrap and there's
> no boot loader, were you thinking we would add the 16550 initialization
> to simpleboot.c?
Yes; or at least break out the common routine to be called by all
simpleImage targets and have a virtex-specific 'frontend' to it called
simpleboot-virtex405.c.
>
> Why do we want a flat binary rather than an elf file for the target?
'Cause a flat binary can be loaded anywhere in RAM and is smaller than
an ELF image (no headers).
g.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-23 16:28 [PATCH] [RFC] powerpc: Xilinx: adding virtex5 powerpc 440 support John Linn
2008-06-23 19:08 ` Josh Boyer
2008-06-23 21:30 ` John Linn
2008-06-24 1:35 ` Josh Boyer
2008-06-24 21:07 ` John Linn
2008-06-29 5:52 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-06-29 5:50 ` Grant Likely
2008-06-24 6:46 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-06-24 13:50 ` John Linn
2008-06-24 14:01 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-06-24 14:11 ` John Linn
[not found] <689CB232690D8D4E97DA6C76DA098E6C0657D53A@XCO-EXCHVS1.xlnx.xilinx.com>
2008-06-23 20:35 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
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