menuconfig for PPC860T

menuconfig for PPC860T

[Zheng, Haifei]

Hello,

We downloaded kernel version 2.4.0 from kernel.org. Our target is RPX-CLLF
(860T) from Embedded Planet. We did "make menuconfig", but we could not find
PPC options at all under the Processor type and features (all we have is
Pentium). Did someone have the same problem before? How to go about it?

Thanks a lot.

Haifei


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Re: menuconfig for PPC860T

[Dan Malek]

"Zheng, Haifei" wrote:

> We downloaded kernel version 2.4.0 from kernel.org.

That site is not properly updated with PowerPC patches.  We are
actively working on that problem.  For now, please visit
	http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html

to get access to the latest 2.4 PowerPC Linux sources.


	-- Dan

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Re: menuconfig for PPC860T

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:45:16PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:

> > We downloaded kernel version 2.4.0 from kernel.org.
>
> That site is not properly updated with PowerPC patches.  We are
> actively working on that problem.  For now, please visit
> 	http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html
>
> to get access to the latest 2.4 PowerPC Linux sources.

Also, if you are building this on a pentium, don't forget to do something
like make ARCH=ppc menuconfig.  The 8xx targets are known to build, and
should be working.  If you have to fix any problems, please send patches.

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Re: menuconfig for PPC860T

[Brian Ford]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Tom Rini wrote:

> The 8xx targets are known to build, and should be working.  If you have
> to fix any problems, please send patches.
>

For about the last week, make xconfig has stopped working for the
EST8260 board in the 2.5 bk tree.  It dies with:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ford/linux/src/linuxppc_2_5/scripts'
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/ppc/config.in >> kconfig.tk
statement not in menu
make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1

This happens whether or not I use my .config or I remove it.  With my
.config, I can still successfully build a kernel.  I haven't taken the
time to track it down as I assumed it was transient.

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Re: menuconfig for PPC860T

[Dan Malek]

Brian Ford wrote:

> For about the last week, make xconfig has stopped working for the
> EST8260 board in the 2.5 bk tree.  It dies with:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ford/linux/src/linuxppc_2_5/scripts'
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/ppc/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> statement not in menu
> make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1


Aside from this, I don't think anything but the manual 'make config' has
ever worked for the 8260.  The problem is I set two processor type
configuration variables, CONFIG_6xx and CONFIG_8260.  Most of the
scripts try to be "smart" and only allow one to be set.  I know
'make menuconfig' doesn't work properly, I suspect 'make xconfig'
does the same (unless Tom has fixed this recently :-).


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Re: menuconfig for PPC860T

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:18:44PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
> Brian Ford wrote:
>
> > For about the last week, make xconfig has stopped working for the
> > EST8260 board in the 2.5 bk tree.  It dies with:
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ford/linux/src/linuxppc_2_5/scripts'
> > cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> > ./tkparse < ../arch/ppc/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> > statement not in menu
> > make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1
>
> Aside from this, I don't think anything but the manual 'make config' has
> ever worked for the 8260.  The problem is I set two processor type
> configuration variables, CONFIG_6xx and CONFIG_8260.  Most of the
> scripts try to be "smart" and only allow one to be set.  I know
> 'make menuconfig' doesn't work properly, I suspect 'make xconfig'
> does the same (unless Tom has fixed this recently :-).

I actually fixed menuconfig recently, in the 2_5 bk tree.  I'll try xconfig
tomorrow and attempt to fix it.

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Re: menuconfig for PPC860T

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:48:01PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:18:44PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
> > Brian Ford wrote:
> >
> > > For about the last week, make xconfig has stopped working for the
> > > EST8260 board in the 2.5 bk tree.  It dies with:
> > >
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ford/linux/src/linuxppc_2_5/scripts'
> > > cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> > > ./tkparse < ../arch/ppc/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> > > statement not in menu
> > > make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1
> >
> > Aside from this, I don't think anything but the manual 'make config' has
> > ever worked for the 8260.  The problem is I set two processor type
> > configuration variables, CONFIG_6xx and CONFIG_8260.  Most of the
> > scripts try to be "smart" and only allow one to be set.  I know
> > 'make menuconfig' doesn't work properly, I suspect 'make xconfig'
> > does the same (unless Tom has fixed this recently :-).
>
> I actually fixed menuconfig recently, in the 2_5 bk tree.  I'll try xconfig
> tomorrow and attempt to fix it.

Ok, I found the problem.  xconfig doesn't bother to parse sub menus.  So what
was killing it was dep_bool 'Some OF proc thing' CONFIG_SOMETHING
$CONFIG_FS_PROC, because CONFIG_FS_PROC is in fs/Config.in, which doesn't get
parsed until you click on the button(!).  I just fixed this in 2_5, by moving
the questions to fs/Config.in.  But I don't know if this will be blessed in
the end.

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