Using Linux on ML405: Some basic questions

Magnus Hjorth mh at omnisys.se
Wed Nov 29 02:03:26 EST 2006


Those messages come from the Linux bootloader/decompression code, you 
can see the calls in arch/ppc/boot/simple/misc-embedded.c

Cheers,
/Magnus


Peter Mendham wrote:
>
> Wow.  Thanks Chris, that makes a lot of sense, although I had no idea 
> that the SystemAce chip was quite so clever.  I take it that the 
> bitstream in the .ace file is specially constructed by the tools to do 
> the DRAM download?  What is it that produces the text:
> loaded at:     00400000 004E21E4
> board data at: 004DF13C 004DF154
> relocated to:  00405660 00405678
> zimage at:     00405C25 004DE92F
> avail ram:     004E3000 04000000
> I have always assumed that it is a piece of software that does this.  Is 
> that correct?
>
> Thanks very much for replying, the information is really helpful.
> -- Peter
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