[ELDK] How to Boot a New Kernal from TFTP Server

[Ashutosh Sharma]

Hello

Yes these can be in nor flash. User wants to do this using tftp that's why i tried to put this into the ram. Moreover tftp to flash reduces write cycles to flash and increases its life. At the time of development, I prefer to transfer kernel to ram.

regards,

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--- On Sat, 6/13/09, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> From: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Subject: Re: [ELDK] How to Boot a New Kernal from TFTP Server
> To: "Ashutosh Sharma" <ashu0204 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: eldk at lists.denx.de, "camel joe" <camel4joe at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 11:33 PM
> Dear Ashutosh Sharma,
> 
> In message <7688.73532.qm at web53806.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> you wrote:
> > 
> > Are you planing to boot using NFS or RAM disk.
> >
> > In case of RAM disk you need to tftp ramdisk.img and
> kilauea.dtb files to ram.
> 
> and the kernel image, of course.
> 
> But this is not strictly correct. Any of these 3 files can
> also be
> stroed in NOR flash and the flash address used directly as
> argument in
> the bootm command.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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