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From: "Eddie Dawydiuk" <>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:24:51 -0700 (MST)
Hello,

> Could you start by telling me where the initrd is that I need to
> modify?  (And where's the kernel for that matter?)

The first partition on the SD card is where the kernel lives, the second
partition where the initial ramdisk lives(uncompressed, ext2 filesystem).

//Eddie

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> Jesse Off wrote:
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>> --- In  <ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com>,
>> "Ross" <> wrote:
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>> > Jesse,
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>> > Actually what I would like to do is load my own bitstream during the
>> > initial boot and never have the default TS one get loaded. I would
>> > assume if I did that the drivers you mention (as well as the second
>> > ethernet controller which I don't implement in my bitstream) would
>> > never get loaded because the h/w devices aren't present. Could you
>> > provide details of how to load my own bitstream automatically during
>> > the initial boot?
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>> You probably want to modify the /linuxrc and /bin/startfpga scripts
>> in the initrd. They are pretty simple scripts and should be fairly
>> self-explanatory. You will want to remove the insmod lines for the
>> drivers for the FPGA logic you are replacing. (video, serial,
>> ethernet (open_eth), and SD card)
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>> You may be able to rmmod the modules also and the load your
>> bitstream, but I'm not positive all the Linux drivers can be rmmod'ed
>> (esp. the video drivers) gracefully.
>>
>> //Jesse Off
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