Re: Status of 440GP support?

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:13:16AM -0800, brian.auld@adic.com wrote:

1) After looking at the source tree for linuxppc_2_4 and linuxppc_2_4_devel,
it appears that 440GP support is only in linuxppc_2_4_devel. Does
linuxppc2_4_devel mean "unstable", or is it simply the latest and greatest
ppc kernel code for the 2.4 series that is stable.

The latter -- the trees just haven't been merged yet.

2) I'm going through iterations of make menuconfig  (on linuxppc_2_4_devel
tree) to try and get a kernel for the 440GP successfully built and am not
having much success. Does anyone have a ".config" file that works that I
could take a look at? Should it compile out of the box? I set up my
cross-compile tools using the following:
  -> binutils-2.12.90.0.12
  -> gcc-3.2.1 (with gcc-3.2-crossppc.diff patch applied)

See arch/ppc/configs/ebony_defconfig

One way (there may be better ways) is:

cp arch/ppc/configs/ebony_defconfig .config
make oldconfig

3) I plan to use 'Das U-Boot' as my boot loader. Any other snafus/gotchas
anyone would be willing to let me in on ahead of time??

Works fine for me.

--Chris

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