On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:51:55AM +0200, Shie Erlich wrote: > 1) what is the proper way to get the kernel to boot - do i need a > bootloader, if so, what ?
Of some sort, yes. > 2) what is the bootloader's functionality - except downloading the kernel ? > does it modify > memory in any way ? is the kernel dependent on such modifications ? Well, in the simplest form, (what's in the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree), you end up doing some very basic hardware checking/init'ing, decompress the kernel and go. For a 750 + cpc700 system this should be realativly easy. Take a look at how some of the other 7xx/74xx systems work in there. > 3) how can i make a bootloader load the kernel in low memory without > changing KERNELBASE etc ? Erm, I think this is a bit of a red herring... -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
