Subject: Re: Booting questions about hpcarm
To: None <Lin.Colin@iac.com.tw>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: port-hpcarm
Date: 02/24/2004 13:53:20
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<Lin.Colin@iac.com.tw> wrote:

>Now we are trying to put NetBSD on our device. Booting from the
>internal Flash would be an important issue.

>Is there any valuable information about this, no matter Linux or
>NetBSD related?

The handhelds.org bootldr will boot a NetBSD kernel from flash. I use
it on a SA1110 based webpad. The interface between the bootloader
and the kernel needs to match the cats code, so it won't load
an hpcarm kernel.

The evbarm ports use redboot as a bootloader.

I have some local modifications to the md driver to allow it to point
at an area of flash. The filesystem that is stored there is read only
though.

Robert Swindells