kernel startup

[Kumar Gala]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, dibacco at inwind.it wrote:

> Normally is it the uboot that uncompresses the kernel or the kernel uncompress itself? 

How would something compressed uncompress itself?  If u-boot is being used 
it will uncompress a compressed kernel and put the image at physical 0.

> The function called by uboot when I type boot is _start?

Are you asking about u-boot's _start or the kernel's?
 
> What does it mean that the load address is 0x00000000? 

its the address u-boot's going to jump to and start executing kernel code 
from.

- kumar