Re: questions about porting an 8240 arch to linux

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:14:37PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:

* Board based on Motorola MPC8240 processor (based on 603e core)
* 32M sdram
* 250mhz processor
* board is based on PowerPC microprocessor command hardware reference
platform (CHRP).

!!! Here's what I figured out/did so far. Please correct me if I did
something wrong.

1. used 2.4.18 w/ 2.4.18-ppc patch applied (got it from ftp.kernel.org)
2. added my arch to arch/ppc/config.in
3. added a embed_config() section to arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c for
my arch with the following hardcoded parameters:

This is wrong.  You don't need this if you use misc-simple.c

4. add an include for my arch header in include/asm-ppc/mpc8xx.h

You are an 8240/603e core.  don't touch.

5. defined the following bd_t structure in my arch header:

Not needed.

6. defined IMAP_ADDR, IMAP_SIZE, NR_8259_INTS in my arch header

Not needed.

2. what uart should I use? the user manual claims the board has a 8250
compatible uart, but if I compile in the standard linux 16550 uart support,
it exports the same symbols as those in arch/ppc/boot/simple/m8xx_tty.c
which is compiled when I select M8XX support. I disabled the 16550 support
for now and defined NR_8259_INTS to 16 (what should this be?) for now just
to get it to compile.

As benh said, select 6xx/7xx/74xx/... (classic ppc)

3. do I need to setup any registers before branching to the kernel?

No, the simple bootloader takes care of it for you.

See platforms/* for examples to make your life easy.

menf1_setup.c:menf1_find_end_of_memory(): get memory size using standard
mpc10x lib.
menf1_setup.c:menf1_platform_init(): setup todc_* to use rtc to handle bus
freqs.
If no RTC on system then see:
zx4500_setup.c:zx4500_calibrate_decr(): setup jiffies.

Take a good look at mpc10x_common.c.

Good luck.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
porter@cox.net
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

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