Linux on a 823FADS

Hi.

I've been encharged with the (ungrateful) mission of making Linux run on
a 823FADS board. I've already got the latest version of ppcboot (0.8.1)
up and running from Flash, but I'm struggling to get Linux to boot.

How am I supposed to build the kernel? It seems the FADS port has long
been abandoned. I'm trying to revive it, by including it back into the
config and making necessary changes in order for the kernel to compile.
Am I on the right track?

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barreyra@ufl.edu

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Quoting "Bruno R. Barreyra" [off-list ref]:

Hi.

I've been encharged with the (ungrateful) mission of making Linux run on
a 823FADS board. I've already got the latest version of ppcboot (0.8.1)
up and running from Flash, but I'm struggling to get Linux to boot.

How am I supposed to build the kernel? It seems the FADS port has long
been abandoned. I'm trying to revive it, by including it back into the
config and making necessary changes in order for the kernel to compile.
Am I on the right track?

Hi Bruno,

I use mpc8xx-2.2.13 along with some patches from www.solutions4linux.de
on a FADS823 board (Rev. Pilot from 1997). The Board has 2 MB flash and
8 MB dram. Linux runs from flash with an initial ramdisk but you can use
a nfs-mounted root directory too. I use ppcboot 0.7.2 at the moment.

Christian


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"Bruno R. Barreyra" wrote:

How am I supposed to build the kernel? It seems the FADS port has long
been abandoned. I'm trying to revive it,

You can find the FADS LSP on the MontaVista server in /pub/Area51.
It is based on a 2.4.0-test2 kernel and works fine on the 860.  All
you need to do is update the SCC Ethernet configuration and you should
be all set.


	-- Dan

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Helo Dan

I have a 860FADS + 2.4.0-test2 kernel (from FADS LSP on Area51) + ppcboot, and
I can not get Linux run on my board.

Can you give me some help?

Thanks

Leonardo

On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, Dan Malek wrote:

"Bruno R. Barreyra" wrote:

quoted

How am I supposed to build the kernel? It seems the FADS port has long
been abandoned. I'm trying to revive it,

You can find the FADS LSP on the MontaVista server in /pub/Area51.
It is based on a 2.4.0-test2 kernel and works fine on the 860.  All
you need to do is update the SCC Ethernet configuration and you should
be all set.


	-- Dan

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