[ECOS] Linux on Redboot

[Mark Salter]

>>>>> Jonathan Larmour writes:

> "Afzal, Naeem M" wrote:
>> 
>> I have seen references to Linux Running on cygmon for Xscale board by Monta
>> Vista. Do we know if the linux has worked on Redboot or how stable is it and
>> who has done it???

> It certainly works. We've done it lots of times. RedBoot is Red Hat's
> standard boot monitor for embedded Linux. 

There was an issue with RedBoot not scrubbing parts of SDRAM at boot time.
CygMon didn't have this problem, so linux would work with cygmon, but not
RedBoot. That problem has been fixed in the anon-cvs sources. The problem
probably does exist in the RedBoot shipped with the board.

--Mark