David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:

Clint Thomas wrote:

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Hey guys,

I have gone through the Linuxppc embedded and dev lists for 
information related to what I am trying to do, but was unable to find 
exactly what i'm looking for.

Basically, the system I want linux running on does not require the 
initialization of hardware that U-boot provides, or at least it does 
not need it to boot the linux kernel. I want to load an uncompressed 
linux kernel into memory and start the execution of the kernel, 
without using any kind of bootloader. Is this possible? Or does linux 
need some kind of firmware or other software to tell it to start 
executing? Thanks for any info you might have.

    You system powers on. It starts executing whatever is at the reset 
vector, Something has to get you from the ppc powering up and going to 
never never land, to starting to execute Linux.
    The steps to get from Power on to booting Linux may not be that 
complicated, Much of what needs to be done can likely be included as 
part of the code for your board in arch/ppc/boot/simple.
    But something still has to be done.

    In my instance I am dealing with a Xilinx V4 (not an ML403). A 
small "monitor" program is automatically loaded as part of the FPGA 
.bit image. On power on it starts executing.

Curious, how long does the V4 take to load up it's brain? (using a 
serial EEprom?)

    It sets up the CPU, cache, and very minimal hardware 
configuration, and then loads Linux out of flash and executes it.
   
    Linux does not have to have alot setup to boot. But something has 
to to some minimal initial setup, get Linux into the memory of your 
system, and jump to it.

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Clinton Thomas
cthomas@soneticom.com
 

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