Re: 2.6 on 8xx (was [PATCH] Driver for FECs on motorola DUET (87x/88x))

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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i'm definitely interested in what it took for you to get this to work.
currently, i've got a perfectly working system, booting a 2.4-based
kernel, compiled with ELDK 3.0, on a customized 8xx board.  this system
uses the now-deprecated "devfs".

I used an NFS mounted root ELDK 3.0 filesystem. By mistake I booted with
devfs and everything worked except the telnet networked logins.
Did not have time to check why though.

oh, so devfs, although deprecated, will still work?  that's good to know,
one less thing i need to fight with.

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i bk-cloned the linuxppc-2.5 tree, did "make menuconfig" as best i could
(guessing every so often at some of the new features), compiled a new
kernel and, glory be, actually got the new kernel to boot up to the point
of trying to start "init", at which point it hung.

Well you wont get any further than this using the stock kernel.

I had to use my own ethernet and a ported over serial uart driver for CPM2
boards.

Also some tweaking is needed to the irq dispatch and defining out
some mmu staff which do not apply for 8xx.

ok, i'll just hang out and wait for changes to eventually appear.  no
big rush on my part.  thanks.

rday

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