Greetings,
That sounds like the copy in the baremetal toolkit. I put it in there so that multiple payloads can be detected and chosen at boot time. The tag structure consists of one or more 16 byte segments starting with $TAG$ for detection. The 1st block contains a count of additional blocks, and the target's size, + 6 bytes for the name of the target. Additional blocks contain the continuation of the name.
I set it up to start at offset 0 in the event that there are no tags for backward compatability.
G'day, sjames
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
Can someone explain why the rom stream init function looks for "$TAG$" in memory? It appears nowhere in a "regular" romimage (i.e. one with only an elfboot and the linuxbios image), other in the code that looks for the tag.
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