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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: new TS-7000 bootloader (Linux booting Linux)
From: "Jesse Off" <>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:36:51 -0000
I'm not sure what this could be.  Where does 2.6 expect to be placed 
in physical memory?  Is it still 0x218000 like 2.4 or did they 
change that?

What happens when using the bootload application is that it will 
disable the MMU, disable DMA, disable the ethernet, move the bin 
file to the specified physical address, and jump into it.  If there 
is a driver that expects its registers to be in the power-on reset 
state, it may not work.

There is no restriction on kernel size.  The only restriction is 
there needs to be enough free memory to load the kernel in 
userspace. On a 32MB board running nothing other than the kernel and 
a shell, this usually means it needs to be 28MB or less.

//Jesse Off


--- In  Marco Pracucci <> 
wrote:
>
> Hi
> 
> > Boot a compressed kernel image:
> > $ bunzip -c vmlinux.bin.bz2 | bootload -
> 
> I have been able to boot an image of linux kernel 2.4.26, but I'm 
not
> able to boot a kernel 2.6.18. The "linux boot loader" hungs after 
the
> following messages:
> [...]
> valid: 000e6000:0
> valid: 000e7000:0
> 
> Is there any restriction to the size of the kernel image (kernel 
2.6 is
> bigger than 2.4)?
> Have you any idea / suggestion?
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco Pracucci
>




 
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