[U-Boot] Kernel loading and memory layout

Roman Mashak romez777 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 04:24:46 CET 2009


Hello

2009/1/21 Vinay Venkataraghavan <raghavanvinay at yahoo.com>:
> I am new to using uboot but have gone through the code to a certain degree but still have some questions.
>
> 1. Where does uboot transfer control to the linux kernel. By this I mean which file in the source code would I look for this.
>
>    Would it for example be in :  arch/powerpc/boot and in one of the assembly language files?

Look at $(uboot)/common/cmd_bootm.c, cmd_boot.c. On ARM the process
also involves $(uboot)/lib_arm/bootm.c, I guess should be something
similar on PPC.

-- 
Roman Mashak


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