On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, John Clark wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> > I've never been able to make Linux boot with any version of Redboot so far.
> > Redboot and/or the hardware seem to have bugs making that combination
> > unreliable.
>
> Well, I use it... but it's not for the timid... What I do is I use
> the Redboot monitor to download via TFTP the 'package', then I use
> the flash utility commands to burn that package into flash, then I remove the
> Ethernet cable, reset the board, issue the go command, hope like hell that
> 'bash' comes up'...
You're lucky. Redboot on my board simply doesn't see the ethernet chip on
startup, even if the diag can test it. Well the diag can test the chip but
somehow the processor crashes before the end of the diagnostic.
And [xyz]modem uploads are simply non working at all.
> My board has a silkscreen Rev D, but after that things are a bit uncertain...
Mine too.
> Another is that my board appears to route the interrupt that comes from
> the secondary PCI to the board's mega logic CPLD chip, which then can
> be directed to the IRQ line rather than the FIQ line.
... which is a good thing otherwise the PCI bus is simply unusable with
Linux.
> There are a couple of
> wires on the board, so perhaps not all boards have this mod.
Mine certainly doesn't have it.
Hopefully the rev F board will have everything settled for a sane and stable
Linux support to be written.
Nicolas
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