Transplantation of U-boot and Linux Kernel to OMAP-L138

Abstract

The OMAP - L138 DSP+ARM Processor is a dual core SoC developed by Texas Instrument. It has the features of high-geared, small size and power efficiency. It is broadly implemented to advance portable device. This paper emphasises on retrieving the Linux Kernel code, analysing in specific aspect about the modules supported by OMAP - L138 Processor, altered source code of the Linux Kernel as per the requirement, Understanding Transplanting of Linux Kernel & U-boot (boot loader) mechanism according to the target board i.e. OMAP - L138 chip based customised board, cross compile and so on. A new customised operating system is created which is suitable for the target board. The operating system is compiled and transplanted onto the target board successfully.