Please help me...
dony
dony.he at huawei.com.cn
Fri Dec 31 19:40:45 EST 1999
Jeff Millar wrote:
> The zImage contains an uncompress program at the start. This program then
> copies and uncompresses the kernel to another location in ram. If your
> using the kernel from Dan at
>
> ftp://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/pub/linuxppc/embedded/
>
> Then use the debugger to start it at 0x00200000. Refer to the code in
> arch/ppc/mbxboot/misc.c
By the way, what role does the "struct bd_t" play in the function
"decompress_kernel"?
Is it contain the private data for various board? Must I need it?
>
>
> I'm not the expert, Dan is, but he's been teaching me.
>
> jeff
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dony" <dony.he at huawei.com.cn>
> To: "Raphael Bossek" <raphael.bossek at solutions4linux.de>; "Brendan Simon"
> <bsimon at ctam.com.au>; "Dan Malek" <dan at netx4.com>; "linuxppc-embed"
> <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 9:29 PM
> Subject: Please help me...
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > Now I am trying to embed linux onto our MPC860-based board. I have
> > some questions which may be solved by you embed-linux gurus....
> > What I want to do is the following:
> > 1 Initialize the MPC860 CPU , memory, serial port, enet port .
> > 2 Download the linux powerpc kernel (which I have cross-compiled
> > on my X86 box)
> > from the TFTP server to RAM on board.
> > 3 run the kernel.
> > Now the 1 and 2 step work well, but when I download the kernel to RAM on
> > board, It just cannot run.Do you know why? How can I programme to make
> > it run? Since the kernel is a compressed image (zvmlinux), need I make
> > some codes to decompress it and then run it? if so, how to do it?
> > Thank you very much :-))
> > Merry christmas & happy year.
> >
> > dony
> >
> >
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