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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:47:35 +0100
From:      Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
To:        Aleksey V Fedorov <alexf@vsi.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot process
Message-ID:  <49A2A8F7.3070708@semihalf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0902231337300.10803@serv1>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.62.0902212141241.25932@serv1> <49A2704F.4060703@semihalf.com> <Pine.GSO.4.62.0902231337300.10803@serv1>

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Aleksey V Fedorov wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Rafal Jaworowski wrote:
> 
>> 1. Adjust loader(8) to run on your firmware (this requires that the
>> firmware
>> exposes some API for the external world); I'm not sure if RouterBOOT has
>> anything like this.
> 
> I think it is possible to implement all required API inside loader(8)
> itself based on u-boot code. Firmware will only provide config data.

Note that loader+libstand are not self reliant. Certain elementary operations
(put/get char, send/receive packet, read block etc.) have to be provided by
the underlying firmware in a programmatic way for this to work, and the
question is whether your firmware is capable of this.

Rafal



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