From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:06:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" To: Pantelis Antoniou Cc: Linuxppc-Embedded Subject: Re: 2.6 on 8xx (was [PATCH] Driver for FECs on motorola DUET (87x/88x)) In-Reply-To: <40B35372.9080201@intracom.gr> Message-ID: References: <40A38968.6060701@intracom.gr> <40A4C04A.8060508@intracom.gr> <40B1FB42.1040306@intracom.gr> <505FCE42-ADA6-11D8-B485-003065F9B7DC@embeddededge.com> <40B327EF.2090903@intracom.gr> <40B35372.9080201@intracom.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/