help with bootup code

[Bill Whitehead <parman@bwhitehead.com>]

I am just learning Linux and hope to port it to a custom platform using
older I/O chipsets(W83c553 and 87307). Basically the system consists of
a 603/MPC106 with 64M sdram, PCI to ISA and IDE interface(W83c553), and
I/O controller(87307). I believe the basic system is already supportted
by Linux but support for I/O chipsets must be added. I am using LinuxPPC
4.1 while waiting for release 5.

I can load the compiled kernel into high memory and jump to head.S.

I have traced the boot code(arch/ppc/boot) and think I understand the
relocate, vga_init, and decompress code but am unable to determine where
the input is coming from when fill_inbuf() is called. It gets input from
an array(input_data[]?) but I can't find where the data is assigned to
that array. I don't see an open call, a pointer assignment, or a memcpy
to draw data from. The kernel isn't running yet so Linux device drivers
aren't supplying the data.

The code is something like "if ( data_ptr < buffer_size) {
data_inbuf[data_ptr] = input_data[offset]; data_ptr++;}". I am sorry but
I don't have the code accessible at the moment. If this is too confusing
to answer, I will re-submit it tomorrow evening when the source code
listings will be available. I check the list in the evening and am
trying to get feedback as soon as possible.

I have been monitoring this list for a few weeks and have not seen these
chips mentioned except once when someone, from Korea(?), indicated they
were interested in porting Linux to a Motorola YellowKnife system which
uses them. (if your that person let me know how its going!)

Thanks in advance for you help,

Bill Whitehead
parman@bwhitehead.com


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