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From: Allen Curtis <acurtis@onz.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:21:03 -0700
To: leo_guo@jisung.cn
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Subject: Re: boot kernel problem?
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0xc0000000 is where the kernel is located in virtual space, after boot 
and initialization.

On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:00 AM, leo_guo@jisung.cn wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For MPC82xx, running U-BOOT-1.1.2 and linux-2.4.24, I have a question:
>
> After uboot download the kernel through net/serial or read out it from 
> flash, then it decompress the kernel to SDRAM, from the begin address 
> 0x0, and execute the first instruction.
>
> But I am puzzle that the linux kernel entry address is 0xc0000000(know 
> from file System.map), how
>  can the kernel bootup if you decompress the kernel to address 0x0? 
> And I know the MMU is off now.
>
>
> Best Regards!
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