On 28 Oct 2005, at 23:20, Chris Boot wrote:
On 27 Oct 2005, at 11:29, Ralf Baechle wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:02:40AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:
Due to the puny amounts of RAM (2MB) on my board, I'm going to have
to use XIP so that RAM isn't being taken up by kernel code. I was
looking around for MIPS XIP patches and all I could find was in the
linux-vr tree which seems, well, dead.
The linux-vr tree is kept online for people to dig out the goodies
which
may be left in there :-)
Does anyone know of any more
recent patches or should I undertake the work of porting the
patch to
a more recent 2.4 kernel?
I guess you'll have to do that. The alternative would be to port the
2.6 ARM XIP_KERNEL implementation.
Ralf
Looks like I'm getting somewhere! I still don't have a JTAG or any
way to test the kernels I've built, but readelf provides good
looking results and my flat binary image looks like it will do the
right thing.
Basically what I've done is ported over the XIP code from the linux-
vr tree but renamed config symbols to be more similar to the ARM
XIP code in 2.6, so then I can port the 2.6 MTD code into my 2.4
tree (if possible) that little bit more easily.
The only remaining question now is: the kernel_entry symbol seems
to be placed pretty randomly in my kernel image, and the way I'm
finding it now is by getting the entry point address from readelf.
Is there a way I can either move this to be at the start of the
image or insert the entry point address at the start of my image?
Surely I can't be expected to hand-edit an entry point address in
my bootloader and flash the lot to run my kernel, can I?
Gaah! Just as I sent this I whacked a 'j kernel_entry' at the top of
head.S and it does what I want. Now, time to get the hardware side of
things done, and a bootloader written! ;-)
Now, who knows how much initialisation a bootloader is expected to
perform? Does the vrboot loader do the necessary operations, in which
case I can just work on that instead of writing my own?
Cheers,
Chris
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