Re: Initial map of flash

Patrick McNamara <wpmcnamara-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.uclinux.actiontec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, the bootloader in the code release is a much older version.  It does not
support recovery from tftp nor any other manner of boot except from flash ROM. 
Unfortunately, that's all we have to work with at the moment.  I'm working on
making a flash image to test the map.

Patrick M

--- Chris Proctor <chrisp_42-bzGI/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:10:29PM -0600, Patrick McNamara wrote:
> > Based on the code Actiontec released, here is an inital map of the flash 
> > memory.
> > 
> > Flash ROM map
> > *0x00400000:*   Begin flash ROM
> > *0x00400000:*   boot loader
> > *0x0040C000:*   Begin OS writable flash segment (16k)
> > *0x0040FFFF:*   End OS writable flash segment
> > *0x00410000:*   compressed kernel image 
> > (./linux/arch/armnommu/boot/cnxt-boot-ldr/boot-ldr.S)
> > *0x00538000:*   start of ROM disk image (./include/linux/autoconf.h, 
> > ./linux/include/config/blk/dev/blkmem/offset.h)
> > *0x005FFFFF:*   end of flash ROM
> > Max bootloader size: 49152 bytes (48k)
> > Max compressed kernel size: 1212416 bytes (1184k)
> > Max file system image: 819199 bytes (800k)
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You are aware that the source in the kernel tree is for
> the "Conexant Boot Loader v0.3", where as the one in the
> flash images is v0.9.  There may not be much difference
> in the layout of the flash in the different loaders,
> but as they are different - there may well be.
> 
> Does someone with knowledge of the source of the v0.9
> loader, know whether or not it is GPL'd as well, and 
> if so can the source be made available.
> 
> regards,
> --
> Chris Proctor chrisp_42-bzGI/[email protected]
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