Jerry Van Baren wrote: > > The "simple" boot loaders are loaders, they are NOT bootroms. They > expect > the board to have a firmware/bootrom/monitor that does the necessary very > low level very hardware specific initialization (things like setting up > memory maps, initializing the SDRAM controller, etc.). The "simple" boot > loaders do the added steps necessary for starting linux, so they are > necessary but NOT sufficient.
In general this is true. However, it is possible to put enough hw init in the simple boot loader (bootwrapper as I and others now call it) to run linux. This has been done in the past. Mark ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
