From: Ricardo Scop <scop@vanet.com.br>
To: Atm account <linux2@cdotd.ernet.in>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: help needed for porting linux-2.5 to a ppc custom board
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:16:19 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12636.020916@vanet.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10209141216080.2765-100000@moon.cdotd.ernet.in>
Atm :-),
A good starting point is
http://penguinppc.org/embedded/howto/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO.html.
IMHO, porting a good bootloader/monitor to your board, like PPCBoot,
is half the way to go.
I hope that helps...
Ricardo Scop mailto:scop@plugin.com.br
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It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm
really quite busy.
Saturday, September 14, 2002, 4:34:28 AM, you wrote:
Aa> We want to run linux on a custom board having ppc603ev.
Aa> We have identified the following tasks :-
Aa> processor-specific tuning,
Aa> board related changes (io_block_mapping, pic etc.)
Aa> serial driver for uart device.
Aa> pci,timer initialisations.
Aa> There is 4mb flash on the board (for storing vmlinux.gz)
Aa> No hard disk.
Aa> Since, there is only 1 uart port, how can we use it for
Aa> console-login and dumping printk messages?
Aa> How should we start identifying changes to be done in
Aa> kernel source (mostly arch/ppc)? Is there any resource
Aa> available on internet for porting linux to a powerpc/any
Aa> board ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-16 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-14 7:34 help needed for porting linux-2.5 to a ppc custom board Atm account
2002-09-16 18:16 ` Ricardo Scop [this message]
2002-09-16 18:21 ` Ricardo Scop
2002-11-13 9:52 ` Problem in booting PPC with kernel 2.5.44 Atm account
2002-11-14 13:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-11-14 15:11 ` Tom Rini
2002-11-15 11:24 ` Atm account
2002-11-15 16:17 ` Tom Rini
2002-11-15 16:26 ` Tom Rini
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