Hi, > Where did you download the Montavista 2_4_devel?
via anonymous rsync from montavista server. i followed the instructions at http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml >> 1) Is there any comprehensive documentation / tutorial on how to port >> the ppc-linux to new machines? Where does my board specific fixup >> stuff go (for example, memory and IRQ declarations and such). > >See the following two valuable docs: >http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/PPCEmbedded/Introduction >http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual Unfortunately, neither of these docs talks about tailoring the kernel to custom hardware. They only state that "some changes" have to be applied to the startup code. I need some more specific information, because I'm not a expert PPC guru. >> vmlinux file and write it to flash directly, because zImage on powerpc >> lacks decompressor code (at least with my configuration). But the >> 1.3meg vmlinux file makes for pretty long turnaround times (I can only >> upload at 115k at the moment). > >AFAIK, the key point of decompressing is boot loader >itself. It has NOTHING to do with ppc linux. Both >U-Boot and PlanetCore can do this job well. this means that i also have to port u-boot and use 2 bootloaders in sequence, or port u-boot's decompressor code to our own bootloader. Sigh. Arm Linux provides a self-decompressing zImage. I thought it could be possible to configure the ppc kernel just like that. Thanx anyway, Patrick ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
