walle,
According to David'reply, I think you can understand Mer's boot up
process after understanding systemd.
2012/2/27 walle_chen <[email protected]>
> Hi David! Great helpful information!
>
> > Mer is a fairly standard linux system so the bootup process is not
> special.
> >
> > Typically bootup from the board is handled by a vendor's boot system -
> like
> > uboot - this hands control over to the kernel and provides a suitable
> command
> > line to say where the rootfs is and what to use to boot the OS. This is
> in the
> > "Hardware Adaptation" and varies from vendor to vendor.
>
> I'm ok with the boot up process from my bootlaoder to linux kernel.My
> confusion
> is the partion of Mer-core.
>
> > After that Mer uses systemd to handle the boot process (and I will be
> > documenting this in more detail but there's nothing special).
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd is a good place to
> start.
> >
> > On to Mer code : http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Category:About is a
> great place
> > to find out about Mer concepts - and "Source" is in there too.
> >
> As a example of Android, there're a lot of documents can be found to help
> people to
> understand the detail of the bootup process.For Mer, though i can get the
> source
> code i can hardly understand what's going on in deed without helpful guide.
>
> BR
> Walle
