From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: zburgess@redsonic.com
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.3 on TQM823L
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:54:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010816065422.070F210CBA@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:18:52 PDT." <200108151718.AA2709455104@redsonic.com>
In message <200108151718.AA2709455104@redsonic.com> you wrote:
>
> Thanks to help from here and elsewhere, I have my TQM823L booting
> and running on kernel 2.4.4. This is well and good, but I have been
> asked to get 2.4.3 to work on the same board. Here I have problems.
Why that? I cannoty think of any reason why 2.4.3 could be better
than a more recent kernel...
> Namely, the kernel bails silently while trying to start the mmu (at
> least that is what it appears to happen).
I think you are wrong. All cases I've see n so far where people said
"it crashes when enabling the MMU" were just misinterpretation of the
facts.
...
> Verifying Checksum ... OK
> Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
>
> which looks good to me.
When you don't see ANY boot messages at all, you can be pretty sure
that you missed to adapt the Linux board info structure to the layout
passed by PPCBoot. See the PPCBoot README about the necessaru
changes.
> So, my question is, what is the big change between 2.4.3 and 2.4.4
The big difference is that I didn't adapt that one for the TQM ;-)
> (I have tried stock versions of each from kernel.org)? Is it worth
So far, the BitKeeper sources seems a better place to start for me.
> the time to try to make it work?
No. IMHO it's just wasted effort. You don't get anything which you
don't alredy have (except some old bugs).
Wolfgang Denk
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2001-08-16 0:18 Kernel 2.4.3 on TQM823L Zeke Burgess
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