From 871480933a1c28f8a9fed4c4d34d06c439a7a422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srikant Patnaik
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:28:04 +0530
Subject: Moved, renamed, and deleted files

The original directory structure was scattered and unorganized.
Changes are basically to make it look like kernel structure.
---
 arch/cris/boot/compressed/README | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/cris/boot/compressed/README

(limited to 'arch/cris/boot/compressed/README')

diff --git a/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README b/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..182c5d75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/cris/boot/compressed/README
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+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
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