Did you get my previous reply?

Spyro The Dragon writes:
> Well, Ive tried stripping a lot of stuff from the 2.4 kernel I built for
> my A400 (I cant remove procfs support, and time-acorn.o wasnt being
> linked (perhaps rtc support is required?))

time-acorn is required to be linked.  For this one, you'll have to
send me a .config file.

> so... what next? anyone know what is supposed to happen immediately
> next?

The kernel prints something like:

Linux version 2.2.17-RAID (src@raistlin) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux 
(egcs-1.1.2 release)) #200 Mon Dec 11 00:38:42 GMT 2000

> how can I debug this? I can make a serial cable, but what should I
> listen for? what is the serial protocol (8N1 etc)?

Hmm, no one has ever written any serial port code for these old machines,
and there isn't any low-level debug code either.

> is the 'uncompressing linux' message from the bootloader? or does my
> kernel do something?

That is from the boot loader.

> sorry if Im a pain here, but Im unsure as to where to go next or where
> to look.

You could try replying to my previous mail, where I answered some of these
questions already.
   _____
  |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+-
  |   |        Russell King       [EMAIL PROTECTED]      --- ---
  | | | |            http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/            /  /  |
  | +-+-+                                                     --- -+-
  /   |               THE developer of ARM Linux              |+| /|\
 /  | | |                                                     ---  |
    +-+-+ -------------------------------------------------  /\\\  |

_______________________________________________
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm

Reply via email to