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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:46:27 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Aleksey V Fedorov <alexf@vsi.ru>
To:        Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot process
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.62.0902231337300.10803@serv1>
In-Reply-To: <49A2704F.4060703@semihalf.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.62.0902212141241.25932@serv1> <49A2704F.4060703@semihalf.com>

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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.

> 2. Hack e500_init() routine in the kernel to hard code some config data it
> normally gets from loader, like physical RAM size, memory regions number etc.,
> CCSR base address, CCB clock frequency, maybe something more, see e500_init()
> for details.

I will try. Thanks.

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