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>Unfortunately this is not a perfect world and there, as always, some
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>MILO is not meant to load operating systems other than Linux,
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although it can load images linked to run at the same place in memory as Linux
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This is how the flash management utilities can be run.</P
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> The PALcode sources included in <TT
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correct, however there are problems when they are built using the
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that's supplied in the Alpha Evaluation Board toolset (and that's how
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they were built). I'm trying to get someone to fix the new gas.
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Meanwhile, as a workaround, I have provided pre-built PALcode for the
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supported boards and David Mosberger-Tang has a fixed gas on
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