RE: [ECOS] Linux over RedBoot

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>]

On 12-Jul-2001 Venkat Mynampati wrote:
>>On 11-Jul-2001 Venkat Mynampati wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Has anyone tried running Linux over Redboot?
>> > i.e a configuration in which redboot is running
>> > in flash and linux is loaded into Ram/flash.
>> >
>> > Could you pls letme know if you were successful
>> > in this and how you did it.
>>
>>We do it all the time on a number of different platforms.
>>
>>Do you have specific questions about this, or just wondering?
> Thanks Gary for responding.
> Basically, what i am trying to do is, to load linux(this is for
> xscale platform,but not iq80310) on top of redboot, i.e i have
> redboot runnning in flash and i am using load command(ymodem, serial
> port, my enet has some issues and not working as yet).
> hence, i want to understand how other's has done this,
> what changes should go into linux's head.S and should i compress
> my kernel etc.
> I would appreciate if you guys can help me understand this,
> by passing some urls/docs/books and src code for a linux port
> which works over redboot. I have linux 2.4.2 code downloaded from
> kernel.org.
> BTW, thanks to Jonathan and other who told me to buy PCI System
> Arch, by Tom and Dan. It's a treat to read it.
> 
> I have looked at the url passed by Jonathan, but it contained
> multiple tar files, whose file names doesn't sound like linux,
> so how to get hold the same.

Read more carefully - this is a complete setup for running Linux on the
iPAQ which is a SA1110 based system.  You'll find pointers to the Linux
site we reference (http://www.handhelds.org/), as well as the details
of how to use RedBoot to setup and run the Linux application.