Re: [linuxsh-dev] LinuxSH bootloader?

[Matan Ziv-Av <ma...@sv...>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Tim Riker wrote:

> For those of you running native Linux machines, what are you using for a
> bootloader? I've found the link:
> 
> http://LinuxSH.free.fr/faq/linux-romimage.diff
> 
> But I was hoping for something that could handle flash updates etc like
> the blob project on ARM/StrongARM/XScale:
> 
> http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/blob/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/blob/

I ported blob (1.0.8 version) to an sh-4 platform, but I left the flash
writing out. 
http://www.arava.co.il/matan/misc/blob-w.tar.gz

I think there are very few changes needed for different boards. Probably
only sdram and scif initialization.

> The device I'm building for will not have an ethernet connection and I
> don't fancy loading kernels over JTAG all the time. serial console with
> reflash ability would sure be nice.

Why do you need the reflash ability in the bootloader. After you load
kernel and ramdisk once over serial, you can write to the flash.

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Matan Ziv-Av.                         ma...@sv...