Re: Russell's bios/bootloader (or booting the EBSA285)

[Russell King - ARM Linux Admin]

Chris Bohme writes:
> maybe this is a silly question: how do you actually use Russell's
> bootloader for the ebsa285 ? Host bridge mode or add in mode ? From
> glancing through the source, hmmm ... keyboard events, so  do actually
> stick the card into a motherboard or a passive back plane ?

The bios will only use the keyboard if it finds it, otherwise it'll use
the serial port.

> The actual question for those of you who got linux to work on the
> ebsa285: How did you get started ? (I'm really battling here....)

You need to use the angel stuff to download the bios.  Preferably read
the makefile, and put it in the specified flash image location.  Then
twiddle the switch to that image number, and hit the reset button.

There are plans to allow it to download images via the serial port, and
directly from flash (but haven't materialised yet).
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