From: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: boot/simple in ROM?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:49:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA823A1.7030905@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424133222.B8490@borg.org>
Kent Borg wrote:
>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?
>
>
You're a little sparse on info here but try lopping off the first 64KB
of your zImage (or jump 0x10000 into the zImage that you have).
Mark
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 17:49 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
2003-04-24 17:49 ` Mark A. Greer [this message]
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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