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In message <3AD370AA.93F59622 at ixiacom.com> you wrote: > > > For the Walnut it should be a simple thing to do: > > make WALNUT405_config > > make > > I have built a CVS ppcboot as you suggest, however > it appears to expect being burned into flash > memory. Right. That's what most of the people do. > What I would like to do is GDB-load an ELF ppcboot > into the Walnut's 32MB SDRAM mapped at address 0, > then execute it in place. Then I want to GDB load a > kernel at another higher address, and use ppcboot > to boot it. Is this already possible or will I have > to modify Makefiles, linker scripts, and possibly > code? You have to modify the link address at least; but most probably you have to modify other code as well - for instance to prevent the exception handlers to be installed, etc. Why don't you do what everybody does, and write the image to flash? Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "Here's a fish hangs in the net like a poor man's right in the law. 'Twill hardly come out." - Shakespeare, Pericles, Act II, Scene 1 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
