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author | Srikant Patnaik | 2015-01-11 12:28:04 +0530 |
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committer | Srikant Patnaik | 2015-01-11 12:28:04 +0530 |
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The original directory structure was scattered and unorganized.
Changes are basically to make it look like kernel structure.
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diff --git a/ANDROID_3.4.5/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README b/ANDROID_3.4.5/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README deleted file mode 100644 index 182c5d75..00000000 --- a/ANDROID_3.4.5/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -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 |