----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@oss.sgi.com> To: "machael thailer" <dony.he@huawei.com> Cc: <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:26 AM Subject: Re: Where is the first entry point for linux-mips boot? > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:11:21AM +0800, machael thailer wrote: > > > After my custom board finished initializations, It should load "linux > > kernel" into RAM. > > The question is : Is this a compressed "linux kernel" just like vmlinux.gz > > of X86 that I should load? Or is it "/usr/src/linux/vmlinux" that is not > > compressed that I should load? > > The standard MIPS kernel doesn't support compressed kernels on MIPS. > > > And what RAM address should it loaded at? Since it is linked at > > 0x80200000,Should I load there or at somewhere else? > > Obviously to the address it's linked for. You can adjust that address > as you need. With compressed kernels it may be necessary to choose a > different address however so the decompressed kernel doesn't overwrite > the compressed kernel during compression. If I load the kernel to RAM address 0x80200000, is this a virtual address or physical address at this time? Since my RAM can not be so large, I guess this is virtual address,right? Should I enable MMU in my board initializations? Thank you once again. machael
