Subject: Re: a question about mpc8xx linux

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:53:43 -0500

poorbeyond wrote:
> my cpu is MPC860, use u-boot-1.1.4, linux-2.6.20.14
> 
> i use the "tftp 300000 uImage" command download kernel image,
> 
> then use the "bootm 300000" command boot the image.

You'll need either a device-tree-aware u-boot or 8xx cuImage support; 
you can get the latter from the patchset I posted recently.

> i found the bootm cmd entered the /arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.s, stop at the instruction "rfi".
> is it right? after the instruction, where does the code go normally ? what should i do now?

The rfi transfers control to start_here:

-Scott