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Re: PID ROM and eCos
- To: "Jonathan Larmour" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] PID ROM and eCos
- From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied at parthus dot com>
- Date: 24 Jan 2001 19:18:27 +0000
- Cc: "Gary Thomas" <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>, "Grant Edwards" <grante at visi dot com>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
> > this case is detected, the ROM code simply gets copied to RAM at
> > startup time. Look in the file:
> > hal/arm/edb7xxx/current/include/hal_platform_setup.h
>
> Why was it done this way, and not with a more explicit ROMRAM startup type?
> If you have a separate startup type it is more under user control.
>
> Anyway, you can also refer to the way the mips vrc4373 or sh edk7708 do it,
> which use an explicit ROMRAM startup.
This is what I am currently looking at all right... I might even submit
some patches if I can figure the bloody thing out :-)
Dave
>
> Jifl
>
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