On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:17:19AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

Does anyone beside me *ever* try to actually boot a recent kernel on this thing?

How do you do it? Do I need patched U-boots etc, or can I just load a Z-record image of vmlinux into RAM over the serial console?

Needless to say, ARM Ltd. has deleted the web pages for official support of this thing as far as I can see. I was going to try out a few patches affecting mach-integrator...

That's going back quite a few years... and yes, it wasn't trivial. How it used to be done was with a boot loader called 'milo' which read the kernel out of flash - you had to program it and the kernel using 'afu' via the debugger.

Looking at the various scripts I have around, the other way I did it was using Angel (and presumably armsd). I have this .angelrc file:

device /dev/ttyS3 options "9600 8N1" baud 115200 base 0x00008000 entry 0x00008000 #otherfile ramdisk_img.gz #otherbase 0xc0800000 r0 0x00 r1 21 exec .start-minicom

and .start-minicom is: #!/bin/sh exec ~/bin/start-minicom int

Not sure if any of this helps, but might provide some hints.