Direct-Boot Linux developers kit release notes

DBLX developers kit based on Diags release 1.44
Stig Telfer, Alpha Processor Inc, 8 December 2000

Contents

Introduction

This package provides support for embedded boot of a linux kernel. Embedded boot is the concept where the booted kernel is firmware-resident. The hardware and software environment required by a booting kernel is configured and prepared by the Alpha Diagnostics.

Supported Platforms

Platforms supported by this release:

UP1000 support has been removed in this release due to a strange problem during heavy disk load.

Files included in this release

Several key files are needed to boot an embedded Linux kernel.


Notes on configuring the embedded boot kernel


Release Notes

9 October 2000
First developer release made using a pre-release of diags v1.43.
12 October 2000
This document is included in the Diags source tree, starting with Diags release 1.43.
DBLX support is added for UP1000 and CS20.
8 December 2000
Additional information and new features supported in diags v1.44
DBLX support is removed again for UP1000.