Tuesday, 11 December 2007

ARM Linux Kernel Boot Requirements

Essentially, the boot loader should provide (as a minimum) the following:

1. Setup and initialise the RAM.
2. Initialise one serial port.
3. Detect the machine type.
4. Setup the kernel tagged list.
5. Call the kernel image.

For more information, refer the following link :

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/booting.php

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