> On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:05PM +0200, Michael Engel wrote:
> > Over the weekend I started to hack on a standalone fdisk/mke2fs tool for
> > the RM200 based on MILO sources. As Ralf and Thomas decided that MILO is
> > dead now I'm interested what the new bootloader will look like ...
>
> :-)) We don't need an extra bootloader. With only minor hacks I got a
> kernel for my Olli, which boots directly from the ARC firmware.
Well, that's nice ! ;-)
> The only problem, which we probably have to face, are ARC firmware bugs.
> For example the RM200 loads executables off by 4 bytes to memory:-( But
> that's IMHO a small price for not having to maintain milo.
Yep. One could also try to build a kernel for the big-endian SINIX firmware
on the RM200, perhaps the SINIX firmware has less bugs ...
regards,
Michael
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