Hi I have ported rom monitor code[Openbios from IBM] for my custom board[PPC440GP Processor]. The custom board doesn't support ethernet. Now I want to download a linux image to the RAM of my custom board. What linux image I have to build to download to RAM using JTAG of Riscwatch Debugger .
Thanking you in advance Regards Aman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Denk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Aman" <aman at mistralsoftware.com> Cc: "linuxppc embedded" <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: Re: Downloading Linux image using Riscwatch > In message <001b01c26976$233e0640$370da8c0 at aman> you wrote: > > > > I am using PPC 440GP processor on custom board. This board doesnt not have > > Ethernet support and there is no rom monitor code in the board. Is it > > possible to download the Linux image to the board using JTAG . If so what > > type of image should I build. > > You can download the kernel, but it will not run ;-) > > The Linux kernel relies on a lot of initialization to be done by the > firmware - things like initializing and sizing the memory, passing > boot arguments etc. > > I suggest you start porting PPCBoot. > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux > Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de > The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes > the other 90% of the time. > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
