Bootstraps for Mips/OCTEON platforms

[Patrick Mahan]

Andrew,

Most of the Cavium hardware I have played with all use u-boot or a modified
version of u-boot.  However, I have seen a few vendors platforms that have
their own bootloader (Cisco, Motorola to name a few).

If it is not u-boot, then I guess you need to determine where the hardware
expects the bootloader to load the start of the kernel.  If it boots linux
and you have the sources for the linux it will boot, you look at the link
map for linux which should have some clues.

But overall, it has always (to the best of my knowledge) been u-boot.

Hope this points you in the right direction,

Patrick

On 2/18/11 11:08 AM, Andrew Duane wrote:
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> I'm starting at ground zero (almost) with an Octeon based platform related to the OCTEON1 config in the -CURRENT. The board uses an existing MIPS bootstrap and loader, but that does not seem to be compatible with what the kernel expects. What bootstrap is used normally? u-boot?
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