Re: 2.6 on 8xx (was [PATCH] Driver for FECs on motorola DUET (87x/88x))

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> >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.

oh, so devfs, although deprecated, will still work?  that's good to know,
one less thing i need to fight with.

> >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.

ok, i'll just hang out and wait for changes to eventually appear.  no
big rush on my part.  thanks.

rday

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