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diff --git a/kernel/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README b/kernel/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..182c5d757 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Creation of the self-extracting compressed kernel image (vmlinuz) +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +This can be slightly confusing because it's a process with many steps. + +The kernel object built by the arch/etrax100/Makefile, vmlinux, is split +by that makefile into text and data binary files, vmlinux.text and +vmlinux.data. + +Those files together with a ROM filesystem can be catted together and +burned into a flash or executed directly at the DRAM origin. + +They can also be catted together and compressed with gzip, which is what +happens in this makefile. Together they make up piggy.img. + +The decompressor is built into the file decompress.o. It is turned into +the binary file decompress.bin, which is catted together with piggy.img +into the file vmlinuz. It can be executed in an arbitrary place in flash. + +Be careful - it assumes some things about free locations in DRAM. It +assumes the DRAM starts at 0x40000000 and that it is at least 8 MB, +so it puts its code at 0x40700000, and initial stack at 0x40800000. + +-Bjorn |