Re: Who's the maintainer for the freescale MPC8349ITX board?

"Russell McGuire" [off-list ref] wrote on 01/19/2007 07:06:56 PM:

Bruce,

Did you ever get linux to boot up?

I am wondering if I am having similar problems on my system, though it 

is

based on the MPC8360E. Serial port code and clocking is the same between
these systems, at least it should be.

Russ,

Sorry I took so long to get back to you on this.  I've spent the last 
couple of days trying to reproduce the problems I had bringing this board 
up to see if there really were any issues in the code or if it was just me 
not knowing what the heck I was doing.  Turned out to be the latter, 
naturally.

I can't speak to the 8360, but since it's in the same family I expect the 
differences in this regard are trivial.  I did finally manage to get the 
2.6.19.1 kernel to boot on the MPC8349ITX board using u-boot 1.2.0 (I 
don't know if u-boot 1.1.6-dirty is close enough or not) and the 
mpc8349emitx.dts file in the 2.6.19.1 tree.  Some things to know however 
(which I didn't when I started :O ).  You need to use the '-f' flag with 
the DTC to force it to compile (at least I had to with the version I 
have), otherwise it will error out when it finds no 'chosen' node.  You 
don't need one, u-boot will add a 'chosen' node on the fly.  Also, you 
need to use the '-V 0x10' flag in DTC, otherwise it defaults to making a 
version 3 blob.  u-boot seems unable to parse a version 3 blob and 
therefore can't fill in the properties it needs to for the kernel to boot. 
 So, in the end my command to generate the blob file looked like this:

./dtc -I dts -O dtb -f -V 0x10 mpc8349emitx.dts > 8349.blob

This worked for me, your milage may vary.

See 'ya!

Bruce