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Re: Bootloader for ARM integrator board
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- To: "Mehul Agarwal, Noida" <mehul at noida dot hcltech dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 05:55:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Bootloader for ARM integrator board
- References: <E04CF3F88ACBD5119EFE00508BBB212109018C9E@exch-01.noida.hcltech.com>
Mehul Agarwal, Noida wrote:
Hello,
Just one more question .. Is the kernel image of Linux(vmlinux) directly
bootable on the integrator platform or does it necessarily require the
bootloader to do the initialization of the board before the control can
finally jump to vmlinux ?
Theoretically you could do it with just a very simple stub to point the
linux kernel at the right initialization data. See
hal/arm/arch/current/src/redboot_linux_exec.c. But since the kernel has to
be loaded into ram, that means ram and MMU must also be initialized etc.etc.
Much easier just to use RedBoot and be done with it.
Jifl
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