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authorMikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>2005-07-27 11:44:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-07-27 16:26:01 -0700
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[PATCH] CRIS update: new subarchitecture v32
New CRIS sub architecture named v32. From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Fix swapped kmalloc args Signed-off-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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+Creation of the self-extracting compressed kernel image (vmlinuz)
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+$Id: README,v 1.1 2003/08/21 09:37:03 johana Exp $
+
+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