Nios-II boot monitor available (u-boot)

The bootm command is now implemented. This lets you

boot or run kernels, scripts, etc. It fully supports

gzip and bz2 decompression (for compressed kernels).

In order to use bootm you will need to use the u-boot

'mkimage' utility. mkimage is used to create the u-boot image

files. mkimage and updated binary/source archives are

available at:

http://www.psyent.com/download (http://www.psyent.com/download)

I tested by booting a gzipped Microtronix linux kernel

on the Altera 1C20 devkit board. Result were pretty

good:

vmlinux.bin: 1.6 MB (original binary)

vmlinux.img: 678 KB (gzipped u-boot image).

BTW: see the README in the mkimage zip file

for instructions.

Regards,

--Scott