[haiku-gsoc] Re: students: requesting an update

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: Johannes Wischert <johanneswi@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:38:48 +0200 CEST

> Excuse me that I took so long to answer... festival season ;)
> I'm just working on the u-boot loader coder so that it can load the
> kernel directly form a BFS parititon by using u-boot API calls (as I
> wrote it now the kernel would have to be in a fat partition on the
> mmc)

You mean using u-boot to read the drive from haiku_loader, right ?

> Now I'm a bit stuck reading up elf internals ;) since I have to write
> a loader for that, too since I can't use u-boot for that anymore ;).

You should only have to write the ARM-specific code IIRC, the
bootloader has a generic elf reader.


François.

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