Motorola VME boards

Motorola VME boards

[flynn]

 Hello,

   I'm looking for information concerning Motorola PPC based VME
   boards under Linux.

   I would like to run Linux on an MVME 2100 board (8240 based).
   Has anyone tried this ?  I would think that the Sandpoint port
   shouldn't be hard to adapt to this board or might just work
   on it.  Is there something I'm overlooking ?

   Also for those of you using the MVME 5100 or other MVME ports,
   which VME bridge driver are you using ?

   Thanks in advance for any information.
   Gerard Flynn

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Re: Motorola VME boards

[Xavier Grave]

Hi,

I'm just in a lab near you and play with linux on VME board...

O+ xavier
Le mar, 25 sep 2001 09:37:10, flynn@lure.u-psud.fr a écrit :
>
>  Hello,
>
>    I'm looking for information concerning Motorola PPC based VME
>    boards under Linux.
>
>    I would like to run Linux on an MVME 2100 board (8240 based).
>    Has anyone tried this ?  I would think that the Sandpoint port
>    shouldn't be hard to adapt to this board or might just work
>    on it.  Is there something I'm overlooking ?
>
>    Also for those of you using the MVME 5100 or other MVME ports,
>    which VME bridge driver are you using ?
>
>    Thanks in advance for any information.
>    Gerard Flynn
>
> --
> Gerard FLYNN                 Tel : 33.01.64.46.80.99
> LURE Departement Anneaux     Fax : 33.01.64.46.80.07
> Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud  BP 34
> 91898 ORSAY FRANCE
>
>
>
>
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Re: Motorola VME boards

[Andrew Johnson]

Hi Gerard,

flynn@lure.u-psud.fr wrote:
>
>    I would like to run Linux on an MVME 2100 board (8240 based).
>    Has anyone tried this ?  I would think that the Sandpoint port
>    shouldn't be hard to adapt to this board or might just work
>    on it.  Is there something I'm overlooking ?

I can let you have patches to MontaVista's Hard Hat 2.0 Linux 2.0
Journeyman release for the MVME2100 - I have it running, using PPCBug for
network (tftp) booting.  The configuration also allows for blowing a boot
image into flash, but I've not actually tested that.  I haven't tested the
PMC or PC-MIP slots either, so there may still be some hardware
configuration issues.

I haven't looked at VME bridge software properly yet (this port is only a
background project for me), but would be interested in other people's
thoughts about this - there appear to be several possibilities, but I
haven't looked at them in detail.

- Andrew
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