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21 years ago

Nios-II boot monitor available (u-boot)

U-Boot is a boot monitor that supports a variety of processors including: Nios-II, Nios-32, PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, and x86. It is licensed under the terms of the GPL. A patch has (just) been submi...
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21 years ago

> The "do_bootm_linux" is not completed.

Correct. It is not implemented yet.

>Is that not the one that should be used for starting the system???

For starting the operating system, yes. Depending on your linux

init code, you may be able to start linux with the "go" command

until do_bootm_linux() is implemented -- or you could implement

the routine yourself and submit a patch :-)

--Scott