simple question on fallback/normal images

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Mar 3 13:29:01 CET 2003


On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, steven james wrote:

> The trick is to build a fallback image! The idea is that at least a
> fallback image is necessary. A normal image is optional. The normal image
> doesn't have the power on reset vector at 0xffff0 anyway, only the
> protected vector at 0xffff8. Also, the normal image gets linked to reside
> at 0xfffe0000.
> 


my only concern: what if the fallback decides to boot a normal image? 
That's the only reason I did not do it this way.

ron




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