Re: porting arcboot

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:49:49 +0100 (CET)
From: Vivien Chappelier <redacted>
To: Guido Guenther <redacted>
Subject: Re: porting arcboot

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Guido Guenther wrote:

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Can't we read the load address (and needed space) from the elf header

s/load address/kernel's load address/

Yes, that's what we do already. I was speaking of arcboot load address,
sorry this wasn't very clear :)

In case we find a unique place for arcboot in the memory map of the
different subarches.

On the O2 physical memory starts from KSEG0 (0x80000000), the kernel is
loaded there for 32-bit version or in XKPHYS (0x9800000000000000) for the
64-bit version. I don't really know where the PROM code and data is
located precisely, but loading something (arcboot or a kernel) at
0x88000000 as with ip22 is not an option; the PROM says something like
'loading there would overwrite an existing program'. Why is kernel/arcboot
loaded at 0x88000000 on ip22? Is KSEG0 an option for ip22?
BTW, what's the status of mips64/ip22? I guess the PROM doesn't support
64-bit as on the ip32, so arcboot with 64-bit support would be needed as
well, right?

Vivien.