From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40B35372.9080201@intracom.gr> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:08:50 +0300 From: Pantelis Antoniou MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linuxppc-Embedded Subject: Re: 2.6 on 8xx (was [PATCH] Driver for FECs on motorola DUET (87x/88x)) References: <40A38968.6060701@intracom.gr> <40A4C04A.8060508@intracom.gr> <40B1FB42.1040306@intracom.gr> <505FCE42-ADA6-11D8-B485-003065F9B7DC@embeddededge.com> <40B327EF.2090903@intracom.gr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Tue, 25 May 2004, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > >>Hi there >> >>Success!!! >> >> netvia-ppc root # uname -a >> Linux netvia-ppc 2.6.6 #54 Tue May 25 13:53:27 EEST 2004 ppc ppc ppc >>GNU/Linux >> >>Everything works now, the problem was with the uart driver, had a >>problem with >>the interrupts. >> > >i'm definitely interested in what it took for you to get this to work. >currently, i've got a perfectly working system, booting a 2.4-based >kernel, compiled with ELDK 3.0, on a customized 8xx board. this system >uses the now-deprecated "devfs". > I used an NFS mounted root ELDK 3.0 filesystem. By mistake I booted with devfs and everything worked except the telnet networked logins. Did not have time to check why though. > >i bk-cloned the linuxppc-2.5 tree, did "make menuconfig" as best i could >(guessing every so often at some of the new features), compiled a new >kernel and, glory be, actually got the new kernel to boot up to the point >of trying to start "init", at which point it hung. > Well you wont get any further than this using the stock kernel. I had to use my own ethernet and a ported over serial uart driver for CPM2 boards. Also some tweaking is needed to the irq dispatch and defining out some mmu staff which do not apply for 8xx. > >i'm using embedded planet's planet core bootloader and, although i'd love >to make the switch to u-boot, given that planet core seems to be doing the >job at the moment, i think i won't tempt the gods just yet. that's a >later project. > > My condolences :) >given that "devfs" is now technically obsolete, i'm wondering what you did >in terms of the kernel configuration, and what you had to do in your root >filesystem to effect the switch over to (i'm assuming) sysfs+udev. > I did nothing special; it appeared to just work. > >mind sharing your .config file for this? i'm not interested in getting >every feature of this board to work at the moment -- just getting to the >command line prompt would make me happy. > Patience, I'll clean the stuff up and post them here. > >rday > > > > Regards Pantelis ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/