[Arm-netbook] http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/a10_boot_process/

[Henrik Nordström]

tor 2011-12-29 klockan 09:16 +0800 skrev Tom Cubie:

> boot.axf is kind like an app of boot1, there is no asm code in boot.axf. 
> Boot1 may also run different boot.axf which do other things like quality 
> check or massive production. Usually boot.axf loads different OS loader. 
> For booting linux, boot.axf just loads the kernel and jumps to the 
> kernel entry before. But now we have u-boot, boot.axf loads u-boot, 
> u-boot loads kernel...

So with u-boot available, is there any reason boot.axf is still needed?

Do boot.axf do anything related to the hardware setup, or is it just a
bootloader loading a linux kernel from the FAT partition?

Regards
Henrik