boot process

[Rafal Jaworowski]

Aleksey V Fedorov wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Rafal Jaworowski wrote:
> 
>> 1. Adjust loader(8) to run on your firmware (this requires that the
>> firmware
>> exposes some API for the external world); I'm not sure if RouterBOOT has
>> anything like this.
> 
> I think it is possible to implement all required API inside loader(8)
> itself based on u-boot code. Firmware will only provide config data.

Note that loader+libstand are not self reliant. Certain elementary operations
(put/get char, send/receive packet, read block etc.) have to be provided by
the underlying firmware in a programmatic way for this to work, and the
question is whether your firmware is capable of this.

Rafal