In message 6.0.0.22.2.20031014070537.032b4bd0@192.168.1.10 you wrote:
I was hoping that someone could give me a quick answer. When u-boot starts Linux, does is start from the beginning for does it jump in somewhere past decompress()?
There no decompress() in the Linux kernel. So U-Boot always starts the Linux kernel right from the beginning.
I have been looking at the Linux code and it doesn't appear that the bdinfo structure is being handled correctly for u-boot. There is an CONFIG_EMBEDDEDBOOT option but even this only passes the boot parameter in a few instances. Does u-boot fix this somehow?
I think you are looking at the wrong place. Don;t mistake the bootstrap loader for a part of theLinux kernel. We don;t use this stuff at all.
Another thing is embed_config() for the ADS8260 board, forces the baud-rate to 9600 but 2_4_devel is quite happy at 115200 as in u-boot. This is interesting since I am trying to fix a serial baud-rate problem.
All this stuff is completely irrelevant when using U-boot.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk