On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I see two options:
>
> - Copy the functions the are needed into SDRAM
> - Copy all of Linuxbios into SDRAM and run all of it from there.
I'm with you. Do it this way. This is essentially what we do with DoC
anyway.
DoC is basically paged flash. Your pages are bigger but the rules are the
same.
> - What will bite me if I try the second option? The only absolute jump
> that I know about is when switching to protected mode.
Not a lot will bite you.
> - How relocatable is the code?
Very.
> - What about references to static contants?
None left as far as I know.
> - Do I need to create a special linker segment for this?
no, see the DoC stuff.
> - Should I compile linuxbios to be located someplace else from the start
> and copy it there before doing much of anything?
that's how we do it now with DoC.
ron
