NAME
t-rex - create TFTP bootable ECOFF images for DECstations with REX
firmware
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/t-rex -k kernel -r ramdisk [-l loader] [-o outfile]
DESCRIPTION
t-rex creates a bootable ECOFF image for a DECstation from a kernel in
ELF format and a (compressed) ramdisk image. After the image has been
booted, the t-rex loader moves kernel and ramdisk to their appropriate
memory locations and starts the kernel with the ramdisk as root
filesystem. This is done by providing the kernel with the ramdisk start
address rd_start= and the ramdisk size rd_size= as kernel commandline
parameters.
Kernels generated from the Debian kernel-patch-*-mips package support
this way of parameter passing, upstream kernels might need a patch.
OPTIONS
-k kernel
The ELF kernel image to use.
-r ramdisk
The gzip-compressed ramdisk image to use.
-l loader
The loader binary to use in creating the image. The default
loader is /usr/lib/delo/t-rex-loader.
-o outfile
The name of the ECOFF image to create. Without this parameter,
the resulting image is output on stdout.
AUTHORS
Thiemo Seufer <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Manpage written by Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>