Pete Popov wrote:
Me too. Keep in mind too that there is no "standard" zImage support in mips right now. I'm not sure what Dan is using for the zImage support,
I took what you had started, copied lots of stuff from the same thing I did for PowerPC a long time ago, and actually improved on that (I think) :-). It seems every Alchemy processor I work with has a different boot rom, so like PowerPC this gives us the ability to also format kernel calling conventions in addition to zImage/initrd booting and flexibility.
that but that's another patch that needs to make its way in the source tree.
I'll get it there :-)
.... I added zImage support in the form of an arch/mips/zboot directory and supporting files, but that never made it in linux-mips.org because it added yet another copy of zlib (my argument was, so what, all the other arches do it).
Yeah, I know about zlib. I have "fixed" this more than once on PowerPC to use the kernel zlib, but it still hasn't stuck in the source tree :-) I'll try to get it right when I do a MIPS patch. Thanks. -- Dan
