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Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I need some suggestions for booting Linux( >2.6.30 ) with my new project.</div><div><br></div><div>Scenario:</div><div>I've a custom built board with PowerPC 440 + 256 MB RAM. there is NO FLASH on this board.</div><div>There is a hardware logic which will get an initial piece of code (through hardware network) into the ram and then execute it. This code does mandatory initialization of a proprietary chip and this code MUST execute on power on. any other images (Linux image or ramdisk) can be loaded any specified area in the memory along with this code.</div><div><br></div><div>My requirement is to boot Linux at the end of the this initialization.</div><div><br></div><div>what is the best way to do it? </div><div><br></div><div>1. Will it be possible to transfer control to a simpleImage.initrd.myboard.elf(or .bin ..?!) image from already_existing_code?</div><div>2. Should I use u-boot and then load uImage, ramdisk and the dts blob? Using u-boot will reduce the effort?</div><div>3. Is there any other way to approach this??</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Sumesh</div> </div></body>
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