Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <p2 at mind.be> wrote?? > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:17:15PM +0200, Patrick Huesmann wrote:
> > 3) Is there a way to get a self-decompressing kernel image? ARM > > linux provides a zImage which the cpu just has to jump into (with > > some registers initialized) and then decompresses vmlinux by itself. [snip] > Yes. look at arc/ppc/boot/simple for some targets which have a > self-decompressing kernel. (Amongst which is our port to the Insight > V2PRO board). OK, new things learned. But still one point I'd like to add, that's both U-Boot and PlanetCore convert linux kernel zImage.embedded image before booting. U-Boot use mkimage, PlanetCore with dd. This depends on bootloader. Best regards, Sam ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
