RE: blob...how does it start?

[Yamijala S. <Sri...@si...>]

Thank you Russ for your prompt response.
Well, yes, I will try to be more specific this time.
Im a newcomer to Linux based custom board development and am currently
involved in
efforts to build competency in this domain.

I am aware of the basic Linux commands.But, my interest isnt in application
development.
Rather, i want to concentrate on the core stuff that makes porting
applications to different
platforms easier and on device driver development.

So i wanted to start off with the 'blob' first...the board im using is
SA-1110 based board.
Could you pls guide me as to how to proceed to understand 'blob' completely.

Start with what?the entire sequence of files to grep to reach the stage
where the Linux kernel starts,
and also the documents that i need to refer to do this.

Thank You
Sridhar


-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Dill [mailto:Rus...@as...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:27 AM
To: Yamijala Sridhar
Cc: blo...@li...
Subject: Re: blob...how does it start?


On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:11, Yamijala Sridhar wrote:
> Hallo All !!!
> 
> Could you pls let me know what invokes the 'blob' or rather where or
> what is the assembly code that starts the 'blob' for my StrongARM
> SA-1110 board?

Just look at the code. Blob has two parts, blob-start and blob-rest.

blob-start starts with start.S. Check out the linker scripts (.lds
stuff)

blob-rest starts with trampoline.S and then jumps to main.c


Maybe you should be more specific about what you want to know.

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Russ Dill <Rus...@as...>