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From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Problems porting to a custom PPC405GPr board using a vanilla 2.6.10 kernel
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:59:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050227085905.A11020@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502262328.24165.niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org>; from niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:28:23PM +0100

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:28:23PM +0100, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to port Linux to a custom PPC405GPr board. Its hardware runs 
> vxWorks fine for more than a year. 

Good, gives a good feeling about the hardware.
 
> My board has no RTC. Is this a problem? 

No, not at all.

> Should I start with another kernel? Can anybody point me to a known good 
> kernel version for a specific PPC405 board?

The stock kernel.org 2.6.10 that you seem to be using is fine.
 
> Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

Working out your BDI issues will be very helpful to debugging. It's
only clear that it passes beyond setup_arch() at this point. That's
good, though.

-Matt

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-27 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-26 22:28 Problems porting to a custom PPC405GPr board using a vanilla 2.6.10 kernel Niklaus Giger
2005-02-27 15:10 ` Niklaus Giger
2005-02-27 16:08   ` Matt Porter
2005-02-27 17:20     ` Niklaus Giger
2005-04-17 20:13       ` Niklaus Giger
2005-02-27 15:59 ` Matt Porter [this message]

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