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Re: Information about porting redboot


On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:04:04PM +0200, Claudio Di Vittorio wrote:
> 
> > Let the high level OS do this.
> 
> ok about this one!
> 
> > data via DMA. If the codec's reset pin is connected
> > to the processor reset then this is probably not a
> > problem. 
> 
> The reset pin is connected with the cpu one so 
> everything should be ok.
> 
> But my question was a bit different:
> 
> in the redboot init i think that devices are probed
> and
> mapped to memory, and every device should have a
> memory region associated.
> this operation is not currently done for the Analog
> Device Video Coder... 
> 
> this kind of "probing and mapping" for this device, in
> which part of redboot should be placed?

Redboot is just a bootloader. It does not care about devices it does
not need to use to actually boot the system.

The OS should do the probing and mapping, ie Linux, if you are using
Linux.

        Andrew

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