On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:12:54AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-05 01:00]: > > I thought of putting both APEX and the Linux kernel in one partition > > and have APEX read the offset of the Linux kernel from the end of > > the partition but I fear that this won't work either because the > > partition can probably not be *longer* than 8 blocks either (but I > > haven't tested this). > > Actually, that seems to work. > > So the idea would be to put the following information in the "Kernel" > FIS partition starting at 0x60000: > > ---------------------- > Sercomm flash trailer > ---------------------- > APEX boot loader > ---------------------- > padding > ---------------------- > Linux kernel > ---------------------- > padding > ---------------------- > APEX environment > ---------------------- > Offset of Linux kernel > ---------------------- > > RedBoot would then load APEX, APEX could look for the "Kernel" FIS > partition, read the last 4 bytes and interpret that as the offset of > the Linux kernel in the "Kernel" FIS partition. It would then load > fis://[EMAIL PROTECTED] and fis://[EMAIL PROTECTED] into memory. > > Sound reasonable? Rod, would this approach be okay for the NSLU2 > project?
I'd like to see if we can have overlapping partitions first. This mechanism adds funkiness to the load process that I'd rather avoid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
