kernel startup
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Feb 11 10:32:13 EST 2006
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
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- kumar
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