Re: boot requirements

[Joe George <joeg@clearcore.com>]

I found Jun's porting howto to be an immense help.

http://linux.junsun.net/porting-howto/

I found it easier to port Linux to my board than
Yamon.  But I guess it probably depends a lot on
the kind of port.

Joe

David Kesselring wrote:
> I am trying to determine what has to be included in our boot code to start
> linux. I didn't think I needed to port yamon. What does yamon or pmon
> provide for starting or debugging(gdb) linux? Does the processor need to
> be in a specific state or context before jumping from the boot code to the
> linux downloaded image? If someone can point me to a simple example, I
> would greatly appreciate it.
>
> David Kesselring
> Atmel MMC
> dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com
> 919-462-6587