How the follow Starts in Android-Kernel

[Ranganath T.M]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your information,

And can you kindly suggest me,
1)How the probe will be called by comparing the name in driver and name
given in board-files, or it will called based id_table which we fill
for particular bus of that driver.
2)How the priority will be followed to call the drivers files like BT first
and then HDMI driver.

Thanks And Regards,
Ranganath.T.M

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up
>
> this is for x86, not for ARM though.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> normally in embedded uboot is the bootloader.   and to trace this is
>> simple:
>>
>> a.   understand how uboot works - and this is highly platform specific
>> (uboot is highly hardware dependent)...and examine the point where control
>> passed is passed to kernel image file (which still run at 16 bit real
>> mode), and from there u can trace everything.
>>
>> b.   well u need assembly, as everything starting is written in assembly.
>>   for ARM (as u asked for Android), the place is "start_kernel" inside:
>>
>> arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S
>>
>> and then u must learn linker scripting (for ARM is
>> arm/kernel/vmlinux.ld.S) as well, that is how u tell the compiler to
>> generate a image that can be loaded directly into memory and executed
>> directly on the hardware in memory - using the hardware-specific reset
>> vector as the starting point.   there is no loader at this stage to load
>> the binary.   (uboot will load it as a image, but executeable).
>>
>> the rest is yours...
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ranganath T.M <ranganathtm88 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to find out how the kernel will *start* from the uboot and
>>> how the kernel will call there respective static modules which are built as
>>> *.o* file and also how the *probe* of every modules will be called.
>>>
>>> Thanks And Regards
>>> Ranganath
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peter Teoh
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peter Teoh
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