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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:26:56 +0200
From: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
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You are probably referring to the MIPS SEAD board, I have made a port for that board
now.
It runs with a small ramdisk, which basically only consist of a stand-alone shell
and a few simple commands like ls, etc...
So you can't do much with it, but you can make you own ramdisk, and just merge it in
with the kernel.
I will try to put an image on our FTP site
(ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/linux/mips/kernel/2.4/images/) tomorrow.

/Carsten

Shuanglin Wang wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on porting Linux to a third-part board. I don't know where to start.
> Can anyone give me some tips?
> By the way, the board doesn't have PCI bus, Interrupt controller, and RTC.  Do
> you think it is possible to port Linux to it?  And how difficult will it be?
>
> A lot of thanks,
>
> --Shuanglin