[U-Boot-Users] question : difference between booting 2.4 and 2.6 kernel

Tomko tomko at avantwave.com
Tue Jun 28 09:16:27 CEST 2005


Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>In message <42C0B6AC.7070507 at avantwave.com> you wrote:
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>>In general, do you mean both kernel should know how to copy itself to 
>>memory and the bootloader don't need to handle this ?
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>No, the kernel has nothing to do with any  copying  or  uncompressing
>etc.  All  this is done by U-Boot - no matter which kernel version or
>which architecture.
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Sorry , can you tell me where is the code of copying the kernel ? I 
suppose it will be in the file lib_arm/armlinux.c but i failed. Can you 
tell me which file contain the code ?

Regards,
TOM

>Best regards,
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>Wolfgang Denk
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