Re: Question on porting Linux...

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

You can find a kernel images for the SEAD board here:
ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/linux/mips/kernel/2.4/images/vmlinux-2.4.3.sead.el-01.01.srec.gz
The sources are here:
ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/linux/mips/kernel/2.4/src/linux-2.4.3.mips-src-01.01.tar.gz

To build your own ramdisk see Documentation/initrd.txt (in the sources) for how-to do it.
Put your ramdisk images in arch/mips/ramdisk/ramdisk.gz and compile the kernel (you can
use the .config.sead file for configure your kernel for the SEAD board, just copy it to
.config and then do 'make config').
Note that you need a other MIPS linux system to build your ramdisk.

Hope this is useful.
/Carsten


Shuanglin Wang wrote:

> > 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
> >
>
> Yes, it is a MIPS SEAD-2 board. By the way, can I get the source code of the kernel
> with SEAD-2 board support ?
>
> >

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