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2000-10-22 Thread Tulika Pradhan
hi ! i need to use ramdisk for root for my embedded linux ppc board. is there some way that i can combine the images vmlinux and ramdisk image so that they cn be loaded by the bootloader as a single image ? the reason i need this is because i am using a existing loader which can simply download

KERNELBASE

2000-09-18 Thread Tulika Pradhan
can i use change the value of KERNELBASE from 0xc000 to 0x ? does this cause any problems ? tulika _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, cre

boot sequence in linux

2000-09-16 Thread Tulika Pradhan
i would like to boot linux (ported for a ppc based board) from ROM. This is how i think the booting should happen - Code in ROM should contain - - crt0.S (entry point in ROM code) - head.S (something like what is there is arch/ppc/boot/head.S) - other files containing code to download and decompr

Re: no virtual memory

2000-09-14 Thread Tulika Pradhan
initialize them with physical addresses ? regards, tulika >From: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Tulika Pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: no virtual memory >Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:26:08 -0300 (BRST) > >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Tuli

no virtual memory

2000-09-13 Thread Tulika Pradhan
hi ! i want to build a kernel without virtual memory support. this is for a ppc based embbedded system. i read somewhere that VM can be disabled by setting the swap space size to 0. But where do i do this ? please help, tulika