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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200 |
commit | 5f4457a4f62cc9d78e04c0eb12ff0540899aad89 (patch) | |
tree | 0b973d527ea6b2ae31e08da0746b4965a3c5a6d8 /arch/cris/boot/compressed/README | |
parent | 9b94b3a19b13e094c10f65f24bc358f6ffe4eacd (diff) | |
parent | b87297fb405ef13cac375f202d114323b076a56d (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu
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diff --git a/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README b/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..182c5d75784 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Creation of the self-extracting compressed kernel image (vmlinuz) +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +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 |