From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:55:04 +0300 From: Alex Shnitman To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Linux on Motorola Sandpoint/PPMC7400 Message-ID: <20000828225504.B23679@hectic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, I've seen that Hard Hat Linux supports the Sandpoint board with MPC8240 and MPC755. We have a 7400 processor there though. Does anyone have any experience with this configuration? Can Linux run on it? Also, is there anything special I should know about booting Linux from dink32? Here's what I did, and how it failed. I got the latest kernel snapshot from fsmlabs (I tried the same with both the latest 2.2 and 2.3 trees). I set in the Makefile ARCH := ppc and CROSS_COMPILE := powerpc-linux- (the prefix for the tools that I have installed, on my Debian box, from www.emdebian.org). "make menuconfig", there I made sure I have support for serial console, there I also set the boot command line (PReP command line it says) to "console=ttyS0,9600 console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram" (I don't really have initrd yet, I want to see the kernel booting first). Then make zImage, which compiles fine, "file arch/ppc/boot/zvmlinux" tells me it's indeed a PowerPC ELF image, then I zsrec it to an srec file (I tried all kinds of offsets -- does it matter?), then I upload it to the PowerPC box, then I "go" to that offset, and then it just hangs... Any ideas what to try? I'm simply lost... Thanks a lot in advance! -- Alex Shnitman | http://www.debian.org alexsh@hectic.net, alexsh@linux.org.il +----------------------- http://alexsh.hectic.net UIN 188956 PGP key on web page E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. -- Mikko Hänninen ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/