On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:54:03PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
The 2.2.xx kernels are certainly the most stable and recommended
if you are building products. There is a 2.2.13 tar image on
ppc.kernel.org/embedded for 8xx processors. I don't know when
some of the recent changes happened, but the generic 2.3.18
kernel has all of the 8xx changes.
Most recently (apart from trying the doomed 2.3.37) I have been using
2.3.18 (from ftp://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/pub/linuxppc/embedded) on
custom 860T hardware. As you may have gathered from my earlier post
on 1999-11-29, all has not been going smoothly. Although I have now
coaxed 2.3.18 as far as trying to load the initrd, it has been an uphill
struggle all the way and I still haven't got the compressed bootloader
going properly. Could it be that my problems stem from using 2.3.18?
Robin O'Leary.
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Robin O'Leary wrote:
.... Although I have now
coaxed 2.3.18 as far as trying to load the initrd, it has been an uphill
struggle all the way and I still haven't got the compressed bootloader
going properly. Could it be that my problems stem from using 2.3.18?
As I recall, the ram disk didn't work in 2.3.18. There are some
general things that don't work in 2.3.18, so I bailed out and
updated 2.2.xx to get something stable. Since 2.3.xx is now
in it's mid-30's (still younger than I :-), perhaps it is mature
enough that I should visit again and make sure the 8xx configuration
continues to work.
-- Dan
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Dan, the lack of RAMDISK support is still on Alan/Linus's "must do" list
before 2.3.x can become 2.4.x. That would seem to imply that the necessary
work has not been done.
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Dan Malek wrote: > Robin O'Leary
wrote: > >
quoted
.... Although I have now
coaxed 2.3.18 as far as trying to load the initrd, it has been an uphill
struggle all the way and I still haven't got the compressed bootloader
going properly. Could it be that my problems stem from using 2.3.18?
As I recall, the ram disk didn't work in 2.3.18. There are some
general things that don't work in 2.3.18, so I bailed out and
updated 2.2.xx to get something stable. Since 2.3.xx is now
in it's mid-30's (still younger than I :-), perhaps it is mature
enough that I should visit again and make sure the 8xx configuration
continues to work.
-- Dan
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