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Re: How to load Kernel from JFFS2-Partition with RedBoot
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: rudt at teleconnect dot de
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 29 Oct 2002 07:01:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] How to load Kernel from JFFS2-Partition with RedBoot
- References: <000c01c27f49$5bc34820$3200a8c0@teleconnect.de>
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 05:47, Thomas Rudolph wrote:
> Hello,
>
> how can I boot a Linux-Kernel stored in a JFFS2-Partition?
>
> For now I don't care about how to get the JFFS2-Partition formattet and how to copy the Image to it,
> let's assume it's already there.I only want to read the Image from the Partition and start it into
> RAM.
>
> I know there is an extension package 'JFFS2' for ecos, but (how?) can I include it into Redboot and
> how
> can I tell Redboot to load an Image from JFFS2-Partition (where the Image is splittet into several
> JFFS2-specific blocks and cannot be loaded linear from a starting address like normally) ?
>
Currently this support is not suitable (ready) for RedBoot.
It is on the top of our list of things to be done though!
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