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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:48:09 -0400
From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
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Subject: Re: boot/simple in ROM?
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Wells, Charles wrote:

> Where is the "standard Linux startup call" documented?

It's found in the code and in lots of archive discussions.
It boils down to building a board descriptor structure or
using bi_recs created at a known address.  The kernel is
uncompressed to location 0 and the bootloader jumps there
when finished.


	-- Dan


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