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author | Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> | 2009-04-21 11:44:57 +0200 |
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committer | Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> | 2009-04-21 11:44:57 +0200 |
commit | 66ab3a74c5ce737effc2c64391e036b0938b1c36 (patch) | |
tree | abe71b0c811dd13c9b9ad2587ba8779a8f852220 /arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/README | |
parent | a939b96cccdb65df80a52447ec8e4a6d79c56dbb (diff) |
CRIS: Merge machine dependent boot/compressed and boot/rescue
Merge the machine dependent boot directories for v10 and v32.
This avoids some code duplication and eases the way for further
merging later on.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/README')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/README | 25 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/README b/arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/README deleted file mode 100644 index 48b3db9924b..00000000000 --- a/arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -Creation of the self-extracting compressed kernel image (vmlinuz) ------------------------------------------------------------------ -$Id: README,v 1.1 2001/12/17 13:59:27 bjornw Exp $ - -This can be slightly confusing because it's a process with many steps. - -The kernel object built by the arch/etrax100/Makefile, vmlinux, is split -by that makefile into text and data binary files, vmlinux.text and -vmlinux.data. - -Those files together with a ROM filesystem can be catted together and -burned into a flash or executed directly at the DRAM origin. - -They can also be catted together and compressed with gzip, which is what -happens in this makefile. Together they make up piggy.img. - -The decompressor is built into the file decompress.o. It is turned into -the binary file decompress.bin, which is catted together with piggy.img -into the file vmlinuz. It can be executed in an arbitrary place in flash. - -Be careful - it assumes some things about free locations in DRAM. It -assumes the DRAM starts at 0x40000000 and that it is at least 8 MB, -so it puts its code at 0x40700000, and initial stack at 0x40800000. - --Bjorn |