From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:35:09 -0800 From: Chris Zimman To: Chris Zimman , Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List Subject: Re: looking for documentation on porting Linux to PowerPC platforms Message-ID: <20021205183509.GA10250@mail.cryptoapps.com> Reply-To: Chris Zimman References: <20021204103839.A28568@crystal.2d3d.co.za> <20021204192129.GA8996@mail.cryptoapps.com> <20021205104856.A3899@crystal.2d3d.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20021205104856.A3899@crystal.2d3d.co.za> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:48:56AM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > I've got a VxWorks boot loader on the thing, so I'm not worrying about a > boot loader right now. I just need to know what I need to setup before > branching to the processor. Looking at the source for the 8xx processors, it > seems I need: I've never looked at the VxWorks boot loader, so I'm not sure how it does things. > ------------< snip <------< snip <------< snip <------------ > r3: ptr to board info data > r4: initrd_start or if no initrd then 0 > r5: initrd_end - unused if r4 is 0 > r6: start of command line string > r7: end of command line string > ------------< snip <------< snip <------< snip <------------ > > Is that all? Also, what is the "board info data" ? bd_t contains parameters for the kernel (eg. start of memory, size, start of flash, etc.). > I downloaded ppc-patch-2.4.18.bz2 from > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ppc - is that sufficient or is > there better support in the BK repository? You'd probably be best getting the code from the BK repository. Again, what you most likely want is 2.4.x + platforms. --Chris ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/