Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:31:55 -0800 From: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> To: Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net> Cc: "mips@freebsd.org" <mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bootstraps for Mips/OCTEON platforms Message-ID: <4D5EC92B.1040803@mahan.org> In-Reply-To: <AC6674AB7BC78549BB231821ABF7A9AE9409045F43@EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net> References: <AC6674AB7BC78549BB231821ABF7A9AE9409045F43@EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net>
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Andrew, Most of the Cavium hardware I have played with all use u-boot or a modified version of u-boot. However, I have seen a few vendors platforms that have their own bootloader (Cisco, Motorola to name a few). If it is not u-boot, then I guess you need to determine where the hardware expects the bootloader to load the start of the kernel. If it boots linux and you have the sources for the linux it will boot, you look at the link map for linux which should have some clues. But overall, it has always (to the best of my knowledge) been u-boot. Hope this points you in the right direction, Patrick On 2/18/11 11:08 AM, Andrew Duane wrote: > > I'm starting at ground zero (almost) with an Octeon based platform related to the OCTEON1 config in the -CURRENT. The board uses an existing MIPS bootstrap and loader, but that does not seem to be compatible with what the kernel expects. What bootstrap is used normally? u-boot? > > > -- > Andrew Duane Juniper Networks > 978-589-0551 10 Technology Park Dr > aduane@juniper.net Westford, MA 01886-3418 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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