We pretty much wrote our own that doesn't depend on BIOS, but unfortunately
there is some 3rd party code that we pay a small royalty for.
--andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Naushit Sakarvadia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 6:54 AM
To: Andy Waddell
Cc: linux-embedded
Subject: Re: Booting from FLASH on the AMD SC400
Hi Andy,
Ok, Are you writing your own boot loader or it is supplied with the board by
AMD???
Further more is your boot loader is dependent on BIOS??
And anyone knows GPLed biosless bootloader...???
Thanks
Regards,
Naushit
> Thanks, but I think I found the problem. It seems I was wiping out
(during
> decompression) the Global Descriptor Table which was being used up until
> that point. My bootloader had a table set up just like the one Linux
wants
> in the early boot phases, so I was just using that one. I just modified
> head.S to do it's lgdt as the first instruction and now I'm getting much
> further. Now I have to do something about getting all the relavent info
> copied into 0x90000 so that the kernel can boot the rest of the way.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> --andy
>
