> I brought up linux on the PPC403 version of an NCD x-terminal. As I recall > I had to write program to hack the elf header to get kernels to load. > The project is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/explora-linux/ Hmm...this looks interesting! > You may get lucky and find they used the same format for MIPS... Well I am hopeful, given that they use the same manual for the HMX and the Explora, but running ncdhack on the kernel didn't seem to have any effect :-( I did try some fiddling with the ELF files, just to see what would happen (but not having any experience with this, I was just guessing ;-)) The load address for the proper boot image is 0x40020000 but the kernel is 0x88002000 which I think is partly why it doesn't work. If I shrink the ELF file a little by removing a couple of the sections (by telling objcopy to ignore them) *and* I change the load address to 0x40020000 then the xterm actually downloads the image but then gives a "File corrupted CRC error" just as it goes to boot it. I'm not sure why that happens, because manipulating the file properly with objcopy should adjust any CRC checksums accordingly. I wonder whether the xterm is checking that the image is 'official'? Cheers, Adam.
