From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nyet@nbase.com (Nye Liu) Message-Id: <199906242015.NAA28109@beavis.nbase.com> Subject: 8240 Sandpoint To: doyle@primenet.com Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, nyet@internal.nbase.com (Nye Liu, x248, ) In-Reply-To: <199906242009.NAA28078@beavis.nbase.com> from "Nye Liu" at Jun 24, 99 01:09:45 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > > I have just started work on the MPC8240 Sandpoint platform (its > > basically an 603e with some integrated peripherals) but this is my first > > try at embedded linux devel. I have plenty of experience getting psos > > and vxworks running on a few different processors, but I am unfamiliar > > with the internals of how linux is booted. > > I've got one too. I'm a newbie with the ppc so this is my platform to > learn things. I've mostly got a working VGA display configured and > running... Could you send me patches vs. a known kernel tarball, or a link to the changes you made? Also, what kind of VGA card are you using? I can't even get my board booted. > > I'm using ESTC's cheapo visionICE emulator solution, and would > > appriciate any help with getting this thing up and running. > > The jury is still out on the ESTC emulator... I can get it to load kernels to RAM and to FLASH, but I have yet to build a kernel that doesn't go off into space and crash the board. > Dink does all that for you. How 'bout booting linux from dink > until linux is running? Then go back remove dink and fix the > startup stuff. I tried loading via DINK... same thing as above. I really think I dont have a good build yet ;) Also, its TERRIBLY slow compared to the ESTC loader (since its serial only). > I couldn't find docs on National's website for the '87308 but I was > able to get the floppy going by just reading the dink code. Anybody > know where to get docs? UGH. i was looking for this too: no luck. I will contact mot as well and see if i cant get some docs from our FAE. > I was considering patching dink to add a command that would copy a > floppy into memory. That might ease hacking. Yes yes that would be a nice feature. Nye Liu nyet@nbase.com [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]