Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Zeighami, Roy]

Hello...

I am trying to build a kernel image for the AMCC Bamboo PPC440EP board.

My colleague downloaded a preview kit from MontaVista and that worked.

However, I am trying to build a toolchain using crosstool and create a
2.6.x kernel image.  However, when I type:

"make ARCH=3Dppc CROSS_COMPILE=3Dpowerpc-440-linux-gnu- menuconfig"

When I select 44x as the CPU type, I don't see "Bamboo" under machine
type. =20

Also, I tried building a 2.6.8 kernel image  with Ebony but I can't get
a successful build.

I get the following errors:

drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3c7ec): In function
`floppy_release_irq_and_dma':
: undefined reference to `free_dma'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3dc14): In function
`floppy_grab_irq_and_dma':
: undefined reference to `request_dma'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3dddc): In function
`floppy_grab_irq_and_dma':
: undefined reference to `free_dma'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

However, the crosstool web site says that the following combo should
build: gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.3, binutils-2.15, linux-2.6.8

Any suggestions?

Also, if the kernel source provided by Monta Vista is some special
branch that isn't merged to kernel.org, does anyone know how to get the
latest source from Monta Vista?

Is one of these the version that I should be getting?

zeighami@linux-2.6.8  $ rsync source.mvista.com::
mol             Mac-On-Linux Source
libmol          Binary MOL Support Files
yaboot          Ethan's Yaboot Devel Tree
yaboot-benh     BenH's Experimental Yaboot Tree
linuxppc_2_4    LinuxPPC 2.4 BitKeeper tree, stable branch
linuxppc-2.4    "LinuxPPC branch of the official 2.4 BitKeeper tree"
linuxppc_2_4_benh       Ben's 2.4 Tree (aka, the PowerMac tree)
linuxppc_2_4_devel      LinuxPPC 2.4 BitKeeper tree, development branch
linuxppc-2.5    LinuxPPC 2.5 tree, based on Linus' BitKeeper tree
linuxppc-2.5-benh       Ben's 2.5 / 2.6 tree, based on the LinuxPPC 2.5
/ 2.6 tree.
linuxppc_2_2    LinuxPPC 2.2 BitKeeper tree

Thanks,

Roy

Re: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Gerhard Jaeger]

Hi,

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:14, Zeighami, Roy wrote:
> Hello...
> 
> I am trying to build a kernel image for the AMCC Bamboo PPC440EP board.
> 
> My colleague downloaded a preview kit from MontaVista and that worked.
> 
> However, I am trying to build a toolchain using crosstool and create a
> 2.6.x kernel image.  However, when I type:
> 
> "make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-440-linux-gnu- menuconfig"
> 
> When I select 44x as the CPU type, I don't see "Bamboo" under machine
> type.  

This won't work, as Bamboo BSP stuff is currently not added.

> Also, I tried building a 2.6.8 kernel image  with Ebony but I can't get
> a successful build.
> 
> I get the following errors:
> 
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3c7ec): In function
> `floppy_release_irq_and_dma':
> : undefined reference to `free_dma'
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3dc14): In function
> `floppy_grab_irq_and_dma':
> : undefined reference to `request_dma'
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3dddc): In function
> `floppy_grab_irq_and_dma':
> : undefined reference to `free_dma'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

> However, the crosstool web site says that the following combo should
> build: gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.3, binutils-2.15, linux-2.6.8
> 
> Any suggestions?

try to use ebony_defconfig

> Also, if the kernel source provided by Monta Vista is some special
> branch that isn't merged to kernel.org, does anyone know how to get the
> latest source from Monta Vista?

guess you should ask AMCC or MontaVista directly - or extract the 
stuff from the sources you already got from the preview kit.

Ciao,
Gerhard

-- 
Gerhard Jaeger <gjaeger@sysgo.com>            
SYSGO AG                      Embedded and Real-Time Software
www.sysgo.com | www.elinos.com | www.pikeos.com | www.osek.de 

Re: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Jörn Engel]

On Tue, 1 March 2005 17:37:22 +0100, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:14, Zeighami, Roy wrote:
> > 
> > When I select 44x as the CPU type, I don't see "Bamboo" under machine
> > type.  
> 
> This won't work, as Bamboo BSP stuff is currently not added.

Correct.

> > Any suggestions?
> 
> try to use ebony_defconfig

Doesn't work, neither does ocotea.  Both are able to display "TUX!" on
the dot-matrix display, but panic before writing any serial output.

/me has one of these beauties as well and will try to hack up support
for it.  If anyone has patches or suggestions, help is always
appreciated.

Jörn

-- 
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Re: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 22:53, J=F6rn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 1 March 2005 17:37:22 +0100, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:14, Zeighami, Roy wrote:
> > >=20
> > > When I select 44x as the CPU type, I don't see "Bamboo" under machine
> > > type. =20
> >=20
> > This won't work, as Bamboo BSP stuff is currently not added.
>=20
> Correct.
>=20
> > > Any suggestions?
> >=20
> > try to use ebony_defconfig
>=20
> Doesn't work, neither does ocotea.  Both are able to display "TUX!" on
> the dot-matrix display, but panic before writing any serial output.
>=20
> /me has one of these beauties as well and will try to hack up support
> for it.  If anyone has patches or suggestions, help is always
> appreciated.
>=20
Could not confirm that so far! Ebony and Ocotea are working out of the
box, using these defconfig files! (pristine kernel 2.6.11)

Gerhard

=2D-=20
Gerhard Jaeger <gjaeger@sysgo.com>           =20
SYSGO AG                      Embedded and Real-Time Software
www.sysgo.com | www.elinos.com | www.pikeos.com | www.osek.de=20

Re: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 3 March 2005 09:23:22 +0100, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> > 
> Could not confirm that so far! Ebony and Ocotea are working out of the
> box, using these defconfig files! (pristine kernel 2.6.11)

With PIBS and on a bamboo?  If I was just too stupid and made some
silly mistake, that would be great news.

Jörn

-- 
I don't understand it. Nobody does.
-- Richard P. Feynman

Re: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Friday 04 March 2005 00:05, J=F6rn Engel wrote:
> On Thu, 3 March 2005 09:23:22 +0100, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> > >=20
> > Could not confirm that so far! Ebony and Ocotea are working out of the
> > box, using these defconfig files! (pristine kernel 2.6.11)
>=20
> With PIBS and on a bamboo?  If I was just too stupid and made some
> silly mistake, that would be great news.
=20
I'm in doubt about having red my post carefully! I talked about EBONY
and OCOTEA, ebony with OPENBIOS, ocotea with PIBS!!!! NO BAMBOO!!!!!

Gerhard

=2D-=20
Gerhard Jaeger <gjaeger@sysgo.com>           =20
SYSGO AG                      Embedded and Real-Time Software
www.sysgo.com | www.elinos.com | www.pikeos.com | www.osek.de=20

Re: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Matt Porter]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:05:41AM +0100, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Thu, 3 March 2005 09:23:22 +0100, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> > > 
> > Could not confirm that so far! Ebony and Ocotea are working out of the
> > box, using these defconfig files! (pristine kernel 2.6.11)
> 
> With PIBS and on a bamboo?  If I was just too stupid and made some
> silly mistake, that would be great news.

Impossible. You need a 440EP/Bamboo specific port. Memory map is
completely different on 440EP.  For discussion sake, note that
440GP/GX are very similar parts with respect to memory map and
peripherals, then 440SP and 440EP each have very different layouts.

FWIW, there's somebody well into a 2.6 440EP port, dunno what the
ETA on submitting the code is.

-Matt

Re: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Jörn Engel]

On Fri, 4 March 2005 08:39:22 -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> 
> Impossible. You need a 440EP/Bamboo specific port. Memory map is
> completely different on 440EP.  For discussion sake, note that
> 440GP/GX are very similar parts with respect to memory map and
> peripherals, then 440SP and 440EP each have very different layouts.

Right.

> FWIW, there's somebody well into a 2.6 440EP port, dunno what the
> ETA on submitting the code is.

Would be nice to get either somebody's name or the preliminary code.
I don't care about crashes too much (can't be worse than not working
at all) and am willing to help.  If neither is realistic - heck, we
need to get familiar with the cpu anyway, so there is no reason not to
race for submission. ;)

Jörn

-- 
A surrounded army must be given a way out.
-- Sun Tzu

RE: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

[Andriy Korud]

Hi,
as I know there is no public available kernel tree with Bamboo support, =
you have to implement it yourself if you need it right now or just wait.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Best regards,

--

Andriy Korud


-----Original Message-----
From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces@ozlabs.org on behalf of Zeighami, Roy
Sent: Tue 3/1/2005 17:14
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Cc: Bawany, M. Ali (HPSL, Richardson/STT)
Subject: Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board
=20
Hello...

I am trying to build a kernel image for the AMCC Bamboo PPC440EP board.

My colleague downloaded a preview kit from MontaVista and that worked.

However, I am trying to build a toolchain using crosstool and create a
2.6.x kernel image.  However, when I type:

"make ARCH=3Dppc CROSS_COMPILE=3Dpowerpc-440-linux-gnu- menuconfig"

When I select 44x as the CPU type, I don't see "Bamboo" under machine
type. =20

Also, I tried building a 2.6.8 kernel image  with Ebony but I can't get
a successful build.

I get the following errors:

drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3c7ec): In function
`floppy_release_irq_and_dma':
: undefined reference to `free_dma'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3dc14): In function
`floppy_grab_irq_and_dma':
: undefined reference to `request_dma'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3dddc): In function
`floppy_grab_irq_and_dma':
: undefined reference to `free_dma'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

However, the crosstool web site says that the following combo should
build: gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.3, binutils-2.15, linux-2.6.8

Any suggestions?

Also, if the kernel source provided by Monta Vista is some special
branch that isn't merged to kernel.org, does anyone know how to get the
latest source from Monta Vista?

Is one of these the version that I should be getting?

zeighami@linux-2.6.8  $ rsync source.mvista.com::
mol             Mac-On-Linux Source
libmol          Binary MOL Support Files
yaboot          Ethan's Yaboot Devel Tree
yaboot-benh     BenH's Experimental Yaboot Tree
linuxppc_2_4    LinuxPPC 2.4 BitKeeper tree, stable branch
linuxppc-2.4    "LinuxPPC branch of the official 2.4 BitKeeper tree"
linuxppc_2_4_benh       Ben's 2.4 Tree (aka, the PowerMac tree)
linuxppc_2_4_devel      LinuxPPC 2.4 BitKeeper tree, development branch
linuxppc-2.5    LinuxPPC 2.5 tree, based on Linus' BitKeeper tree
linuxppc-2.5-benh       Ben's 2.5 / 2.6 tree, based on the LinuxPPC 2.5
/ 2.6 tree.
linuxppc_2_2    LinuxPPC 2.2 BitKeeper tree

Thanks,

Roy
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