From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Milton Miller" <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Booting Linux Kernel without bootloader
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:34:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528646bc0608030934j6864669agdddbb413e6480e8f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4c0f7394350325fbdbfe66afb1b4ec8@bga.com>
On 8/3/06, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> wrote:
> > I've got a similar situation on my Virtex-4 platform. The FPGA takes
> > care of all device initialization. However, the kernel is loaded of a
> > CF card via a *slow* JTAG interface. Loading an uncompressed image is
> > more time consuming than loading a compressed image and uncompressing
> > it in software.
>
> This is often the case. However, if its loaded via some kind of DMA
> access
> from a higher powered cpu then loading the uncompressed kernel could be
> the fastest way. Since we don't know we can only mention things to
> consider as we state what can be done.
As alwasy; the devil is in the details. :)
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
grant.likely@secretlab.ca
(403) 399-0195
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-03 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 7:48 Booting Linux Kernel without bootloader Milton Miller
2006-08-03 14:34 ` Grant Likely
2006-08-03 16:27 ` Milton Miller
2006-08-03 16:34 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2006-08-03 16:49 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
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2006-08-03 18:02 Milton Miller
2006-07-26 14:06 Milton Miller
2006-08-02 3:49 ` Parav Pandit
2006-07-25 22:30 Clint Thomas
2006-07-25 23:38 ` bennett78
2006-07-26 6:15 ` Kalle Pokki
2006-07-26 10:45 ` Andrei Konovalov
2006-07-28 8:03 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-07-28 14:02 ` bennett78
2006-08-02 4:17 ` Grant Likely
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