[linuxkernelnewbies] Introduction < PPCEmbedded < DENX

[Peter Teoh]

http://www.denx.de/wiki/PPCEmbedded/Introduction Linux for PowerPC Embedded Systems HOWTO Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 1.1. Copyright 1.2. Updates 1.3. Credits 2. Resources 2.1. Home Page 2.2. FTP site 2.3. Mailing List 2.4. Home of the linux/ppc port 2.5. PowerPC Programming 2.6. Usenet Groups 2.7. Other Useful Resources 3. Target Hardware 3.1. PowerPC CPUs 3.1.1. 4xx 3.1.2. IBM 405GP 3.1.3. 7xx 3.1.4. Motorola 8xx 3.1.4.1. 823 3.1.4.2. 850/855/860 3.1.5. 603e 3.1.6. Motorola 82xx 3.1.6.1. 8240 3.1.6.2. 8260 3.1.7. AltiVec 3.2. RAM and ROM space 3.3. Commercially available boards 3.3.1. Embedded Planet 3.3.1.1. Linux Planet 3.3.1.2. CLLF 3.3.2. Bright Star Engineering 3.3.3. Simple Network Magic Corporation 3.3.4. QS850 QuickStack Network Interface/Network Management Module 3.3.5. TQComponents 3.3.6. MicroSys 3.3.7. Motorola Computer Group 3.3.7.1. MBX 3.3.7.2. PowerPlus SBC 3.3.7.3. MVME2600 3.3.8. AG Electronics 3.3.9. Force Computers 3.3.10. Actis Computer - VSBC-6862 3.3.11. Total Impact - the briQ 3.3.12. Motorola Semiconductor 3.3.12.1. Family Application Development System 3.3.12.2. Sandpoint 3.3.12.3. Yellowknife 3.3.13. WindRiver (formerly EST Corporation) 3.3.14. Haedong Information & Communications 3.3.15. Cogent Computer Systems 4. Host Development Platform 4.1. PowerPC 4.2. x86 5. Compiler Toolset 5.1. Building the toolchain 5.1.1. Instructions 5.1.2. Build Scripts 5.1.3. SPARC/Solaris Hosted 5.1.4. Getting Help 5.2. gcc 5.3. binutils 5.3.1. Official GNU binutils 5.3.2. H. J. Lu's "Linux binutils" 5.4. Precompiled/Prepackaged Kits 5.4.1. MontaVista Software Hard Hat Linux 5.4.2. QuickStack Linux 5.4.3. DENX Software Engineering 5.4.3.1. ftp site 5.4.3.2. CD-ROMs 5.4.3.3. Boards 5.4.4. The Embedded Debian Project 5.4.5. Bright Star Engineering 5.4.6. Lineo Embedix 5.4.7. Red Hat Embedded DevKit 6. Programming the Target 6.1. BDM/JTAG Downloading 6.2. TFTP 6.3. Flash/EPROM Programmers 7. Boot Sequence 8. ROM Monitor 8.1. PPCBOOT 8.2. LiMon 8.3. PMON/2000 8.4. PPCForth 8.5. DINK32 8.6. 8xxROM 8.7. FADSROM 9. Boot Loader 9.1. bugboot 9.2. mbxboot 10. Kernel 10.1. Series 10.1.1. Stable 10.1.1.1. Montavista 10.1.1.2. DENX Software Engineering 10.1.2. Development 10.2. Memory Map 10.3. Porting 10.4. Patches 10.5. Contributing 10.6. Submitting Patches 10.7. Coding Style 11. Device Drivers 11.1. Examples 11.2. Flash memory 11.2.1. Flash Device Driver 11.2.2. QSLinux Flash Driver 11.2.3. Memory Technology Device (MTD) Subsystem 11.2.4. M-Systems Disk-On-Chip 11.3. PCMCIA Cards 11.4. IDE/ATA Disk Drives 11.5. PCI Bridge 11.6. Watchdog 11.7. USB for MPC850/823 11.8. A/D and D/A 11.9. VME 11.10. HDLC/PPP 11.11. SPI 11.12. Linux STREAMS (LiS) 11.13. Accessing peripherals from user space 12. Runtime Library 12.1. glibc 12.2. sglibc 12.3. uClibc 12.4. dietlibc 12.5. newlib 12.6. libc5 13. Root Filesystem 13.1. NFS Mounted 13.2. Initial Ramdisk: initrd 13.2.1. Examples 13.2.2. Using a ramdisk 13.2.3. Using the loop device 13.3. ROMFS Flash Filesystem 13.4. cramfs 13.5. ramfs 13.6. Journaling Flash FileSystem(JFFS) 14. Floating Point 14.1. Software 14.2. Hardware 14.3. Mixed 15. Realtime Response 15.1. Soft 15.2. Hard 15.2.1. Interrupt Latency 15.2.2. RTLinux - Real-Time Linux 15.2.3. RTAI - Real Time Application Interface 16. Threads 17. Applications 17.1. Standard GNU tools 17.2. Standalone Shell 17.3. BusyBox 17.4. Web Servers 17.4.1. Boa 17.4.2. thttpd, mini_httpd, micro_httpd 17.5. Graphical User Interface 17.5.1. Microwindows 17.5.2. PicoGUI 17.6. Java Virtual Machine(JVM) 18. Debugging 18.1. BDM 18.1.1. MMU Support 18.1.2. GDB on BDM 18.1.2.1. BDM4GDB 18.1.2.2. MPCBDM 18.1.2.3. PPCBDM 18.1.2.4. Abatron 18.1.2.5. Avocet Systems (formerly Huntsville Microsystems) 18.1.2.6. Macraigor Systems 18.1.2.7. RISCWatch Debugger for PowerPC Processors 18.1.2.8. WindRiver (formerly EST Corporation) 18.1.3. Other debuggers 18.1.3.1. Mentor (X-ray) 18.1.3.2. Avocet Systems (SourceGate) 18.1.3.3. Tasking (CrossView Pro) 18.1.3.4. WindRiver (SingleStep) 18.1.3.5. Applied Microsystems (PowerTap) 18.1.3.6. Lauterbach 18.2. Serial Console 18.3. GDB 18.3.1. gdbserver 18.3.2. rproxy 18.3.3. native 18.4. Kernel 18.5. Oops Messages 18.6. printk 19. Performance 19.1. CPU core 19.1.1. Cache 19.1.2. BogoMIPS 19.2. Profiling 19.2.1. /proc/profile 19.2.2. Linux Trace Toolkit 19.2.3. gprof 19.2.4. kernprof 19.3. IDMA 19.4. Network 19.5. Optimization 20. Common Mistakes and Problems 20.1. Changing KERNELBASE/KERNELLOAD 20.2. Leaving the Watchdog enabled 20.3. Mixing code compiled for software and hardware floating point 20.4. Using an unmodified glibc 20.5. "Kernel Mode Software FPU Emulation" panic 20.6. NFS gives "neighbour table overflow" 20.7. "Kernel panic: No init found..." on startup 21. Alternatives 21.1. eCos - Embedded Configurable Operating System 21.2. RTEMS - Real Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems 22. Glossary 23. GNU Free Documentation License 23.1. PREAMBLE 23.2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS 23.3. VERBATIM COPYING 23.4. COPYING IN QUANTITY 23.5. MODIFICATIONS 23.6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS 23.7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS 23.8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS 23.9. TRANSLATION 23.10. TERMINATION 23.11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE 23.12. How to use this License for your documents