Can compile, now on to booting

Dave Strout dstrout at linuxfoundary.com
Thu Jun 6 23:00:33 EST 2002


Ahhh -- I was hoping that somebody would have some thoughts like that.
 Could someone send me a copy of vxhack.c ?  The link in the FAQ (
ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/ppc-8xx/vxhack.c  ) doesn't have
anything anymore....

thanks,
dave.


Donald White wrote:

>
> I did this once on a mpc860 board.  It involved running the uncompressed
> kernel image through vxhack.c from Dan Malek with a few fixes since the
> segments seemed to have moved around.  The VxWorks loader would then
> load the hacked image through bootp or tftp.  I also had to have one of
> the Linux bootloader files initialize a bd_t structure.  I was able to
> poke around in memory and find where the VxWorks loader was keeping the
> environment.
>
> Don


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