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List:       ipodlinux-devel
Subject:    Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] iPodLinux loader v0.1 (was: Re: new ipod, etc)
From:       PALFFY Daniel <dpalffy-lists () rainstorm ! org>
Date:       2003-11-11 21:44:58
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.58.0311112238590.6156 () rainstorm ! org
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Bernard Leach wrote:

> That reference in the bootloader is for the pdisk command which I would
> assume to be a command to partition the disk.  Its not called by the
> startup.  I can't see any other references to it in the bootloader...

Dunno, haven't looked at it much. However with an empty first sector I get
the folder icon. I still think there's something between 0x100 and 0x110.
There are some non-zero bytes that don't yet make me much sense.

> > PS: I should really read ARM documentation before writing a boot loader...
> > It's really funny to find out the hard way that the address of the
> > current instruction is (pc & ~3) - 8
>
> :)
>
> <http://www.arm.com/techdocs.nsf/html/ARM7Docs>
>
> The one called ARM7TDM_Rev4.pdf covers pretty much everything you need
> to know.

I know, I was just lazy to read all of it...

--
Dani
			...and Linux for all.



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