Linux PPC on Sandpoint or YellowKnife board with 750

Linux PPC on Sandpoint or YellowKnife board with 750

[Olivier DERVYN]

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I am a novice in Linux Embedded. I search information to
use it on Motorola board.

Does anyone have successfully cross-compiled linux for MOTOROLA
Sandpoint board or a PPC linux binary kernel can be used on this
board ?

Does anyone have information to do it ?

Thanks very much

--
Cordialement,

Olivier DERVYN

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Re: Linux PPC on Sandpoint or YellowKnife board with 750

[Michael Thompson]

> Does anyone have successfully cross-compiled linux for MOTOROLA
> Sandpoint board or a PPC linux binary kernel can be used on this
> board ?

I have gotten linux to boot on the sandpoint. The changes require
the sandpoint port of OpenFirmware (firmworks.com).  The hardware
was flakey, the documentation misleading.  My sandpoint system
eventually died and I abandoned work on the port.  I still have
the patches if anyone wants them, of course.

-Michael Thompson
mickey@berkeley.innomedia.com

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Re: Linux PPC on Sandpoint or YellowKnife board with 750

[Dan Malek]

Michael Thompson wrote:


> ......  I still have
> the patches if anyone wants them, of course.

Of course we want them.  Where were you for the past six months
when we would discuss the Sandpoint :-)?  You are now the third person
that has duplicated work by the rest of us.  Let's stop that from
happening.


	-- Dan

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Re: Linux PPC on Sandpoint or YellowKnife board with 750

[Olivier DERVYN]

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Dan Malek a écrit :
>
> Michael Thompson wrote:
>
> > ......  I still have
> > the patches if anyone wants them, of course.
>
> Of course we want them.  Where were you for the past six months
> when we would discuss the Sandpoint :-)?  You are now the third person
> that has duplicated work by the rest of us.  Let's stop that from
> happening.
>
>         -- Dan

Dan,

What is your dev. platform (compiler, JTAG probe and board architecture)
?

What kind of problem stop you ?

I have two sandpoint one with 750+107 and other with 8240, which is your
board ?

Do you have used other OS on this board ? (as RTOS or other)

--
Cordialement,

Olivier DERVYN

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Re: Linux PPC on Sandpoint or YellowKnife board with 750

[Dan Malek]

Olivier DERVYN wrote:


> What is your dev. platform (compiler, JTAG probe and board architecture)
> ?


All of my development hosts are Macintosh (iMac, iMac DV,
PowerBook, G4 server) running Linux/PPC.

No JTAG or BDM necessary as I am using the ROM on the board (DINK).


> What kind of problem stop you ?

Time and money.


> I have two sandpoint one with 750+107 and other with 8240, which is your
> board ?

8240.


> Do you have used other OS on this board ? (as RTOS or other)

No.


Motorola gave me the 8240/Sandpoint to develop the kernel.  I
spent a few weeks of my own time, have a system booting with
root NFS (PCI Ethernet), ran Apache and some other tests.  I
never had the 8259 interrupts working correctly with the
OpenPIC on the 8240.  I gave the code to MontaVista to continue
the development.  Depending upon the time available, I will either
check in what I have or wait for MontaVista to fix it and then
check it in.

The problem with the Sandpoint is we need a better boot rom
to support Linux/PPC.  Their standard DINK only supports S-record
download over the serial port.



	-- Dan

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