From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Thomas To: Venkat Mynampati Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: RE: [ECOS] Linux over RedBoot Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:04:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00383.html On 12-Jul-2001 Venkat Mynampati wrote: >>On 11-Jul-2001 Venkat Mynampati wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Has anyone tried running Linux over Redboot? >> > i.e a configuration in which redboot is running >> > in flash and linux is loaded into Ram/flash. >> > >> > Could you pls letme know if you were successful >> > in this and how you did it. >> >>We do it all the time on a number of different platforms. >> >>Do you have specific questions about this, or just wondering? > Thanks Gary for responding. > Basically, what i am trying to do is, to load linux(this is for > xscale platform,but not iq80310) on top of redboot, i.e i have > redboot runnning in flash and i am using load command(ymodem, serial > port, my enet has some issues and not working as yet). > hence, i want to understand how other's has done this, > what changes should go into linux's head.S and should i compress > my kernel etc. > I would appreciate if you guys can help me understand this, > by passing some urls/docs/books and src code for a linux port > which works over redboot. I have linux 2.4.2 code downloaded from > kernel.org. > BTW, thanks to Jonathan and other who told me to buy PCI System > Arch, by Tom and Dan. It's a treat to read it. > > I have looked at the url passed by Jonathan, but it contained > multiple tar files, whose file names doesn't sound like linux, > so how to get hold the same. Read more carefully - this is a complete setup for running Linux on the iPAQ which is a SA1110 based system. You'll find pointers to the Linux site we reference ( http://www.handhelds.org/ ), as well as the details of how to use RedBoot to setup and run the Linux application.