Re: building lilo, grub or PPCBoot for a custom board

Dear Jean-Charles,

in message <36EB27C27D93D4119DE500508BDF85B30B2D7178@TOCOMEXC03> you wrote:

I' succedded in building denx-eldk from rpm packages on my RedHat 8.0
(thanks wolfgang !), and then a 1st linux kernel that I'd like to download
via the VME into the FLash ROM.

We didn't try to _build_ the ELDK under RH-8.0 yet. Did you encounter
any problems? All feedback about required changes for building  under
RH-8.0 etc. is welcome!

So I'm trying to build a cute boot loader (for linux of course !) for my
custom board :

As Jerry Van Baren already pointed out: use U-Boot :-)

 - VME64x based
 - PCC755 without L2 cache
 - no PCI bus
 - 2Mo Flash 29DL163 at 0xFFE00000
 - 128 Mo SDRAM at 0x0000000
 - a simple UART
 - some analog I/Os

Should be pretty straightforward, it seems.

 - where and how to introduce the arch dependent source code in the source
tree of those boot loaders ?

In U-Boot you will create a board specific configuration file in  the
include/configs/  directory  and  board specific source files, linker
script etc. in a new directory board/<your_board_name>

 - how to configure the Makefile to build a light exe ?

You can enable / disable features in the board specific config file.

 - how to configure the linker command file or ld swithes for a particular
mapping ?

See the existing linker scripts as a model. I guess the  easiest  way
to get started is to "clone" some similar board directory ...

See the README that comes with the source. If you have questions, ask
on the u-boot-users mailing list.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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