Re: help needed for porting linux-2.5 to a ppc custom board
flat view
From: Ricardo Scop <hidden>
Date: 2002-09-16 18:16:19
Atm :-), A good starting point is http://penguinppc.org/embedded/howto/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO.html. IMHO, porting a good bootloader/monitor to your board, like PPCBoot, is half the way to go. I hope that helps... Ricardo Scop mailto:scop@plugin.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------ It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy. Saturday, September 14, 2002, 4:34:28 AM, you wrote: Aa> We want to run linux on a custom board having ppc603ev. Aa> We have identified the following tasks :- Aa> processor-specific tuning, Aa> board related changes (io_block_mapping, pic etc.) Aa> serial driver for uart device. Aa> pci,timer initialisations. Aa> There is 4mb flash on the board (for storing vmlinux.gz) Aa> No hard disk. Aa> Since, there is only 1 uart port, how can we use it for Aa> console-login and dumping printk messages? Aa> How should we start identifying changes to be done in Aa> kernel source (mostly arch/ppc)? Is there any resource Aa> available on internet for porting linux to a powerpc/any Aa> board ? ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/