Hi all, Gotta lot of qns..:( I managed to download HHL-journeyman mvista, compiled the kernel and got a "zImage.sandpoint" Now, I got "DINK" runnin in the sandpoint board, to which i am connected via serial port.
How shoudl i download this image into the RAM and whats the ctrl flow..How does the kernel get loaded. >From the kernel source, i assume that the kernel is loaded at location 0x000 by any PPC bios (arch/ppc/kernel/head.S is written assuming this.. Am i right ? Or some how the entire kernel is copied to 0x00 after getting loaded. so that exception handlers are in place ). In that case, wont this destroy the DINK RAM image..So, once I download the kernel and jump to it i cant use DINK, right ? sounds logical ) The first address where I cand ownload this image is 0x90000, right ? first free user address after DINK. I know about "dl" command in DINK.. How do i write the "zImage" to the "COM" port.. just "cat zImage > /dev/ttyS0" would do ? or Should i strip the first 64k of zImage ? In that case, can any1 tell me why I should do that ? Do i need "ppcboot" to download and run this kernel. I dont have any harddisk on the target. So, Whats the root file system I should mention ? I have another problem, I m running in windows and connecting via HyperTerminal. I m not able to connect from linux using minicom or anythin.. I get only junk characters on the screen :( Baud rate is correct. Thanx Sarnath ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
