Re: boot methods

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:55:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:13:10PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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Tom Rini writes:

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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 05:32:34PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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I would like to make a complete list of the methods people use to boot
the PPC/Linux kernel on different platforms.  As a start, here is what
I can think of off the top of my head:

All of the 7xx/74xx/8240 boards in _devel boot via zImage.<board> from
network/disk/flash, depending.

Would you mind enumerating them for me?  I would like to have a list
of the various embedded boards we support in _devel together with the
value of <board> in the zImage filename, plus what software is used to
load that into memory.

I this this is mostly correct.  Any of the following, I'm pretty sure,
can also have it thrown in via a BDI.

That's true.  Used often on DINK32 that provides no netboot facility.

Vendor			Extension		How
IBM Spruce		.spruce			???

						IBM ROM Monitor

M.E.N. F1		.menf1			??? (Probably custom fw).

						MENMON
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