Excerpts from linux-arm: 7-Jul-99 Re: EBSA-285 Help by David
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> That + the serial only interface are my biggest problems with the board.
> I have a TI C6000 DSP card that downloads via the PCI bus and that can
> be reset via software command. I'm kind of surprised that Intel didn't
> incorporate
> those capabilities into the ESBA-285.
There are tools out there for downloading to the EBSA-285 over the
serial bus... Mark van Doesburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
has a program which lets you download and boot a Linux kernel through
the PCI bus - I've used it and it works very well.. His patches also
include tools to let the host and the EBSA-285 machines talk to each
other.. He's got a site up at ftp://nt4.el.utwente.nl/pub/co285 which
should have those patches. We've been using his downloading and booting
tools without a glitch for a while.
Also, in response to the original question: We've got an EBSA-285
machine running Linux very easily. We placed the EBSA-285 into an Intel
Linux box, use gcc (setup as a cross-compiler) to build the kernel, use
Mark's tools to build it, and use the Netwinder's disk image
(www.netwinder.com) mounted through NFS as the root disk.. We had to
fool a bit to get the network up - you have to put the EBSA-285 and the
network card for it in PCI slots which share an IRQ and then we had to
change the driver to use the IRQ_IN0 interrupt instead of the default
reported by the PCI bus.
To summarize - you don't need any extra hardware to get the EBSA-285
running Linux.. The software is freely available out there and you don't
really need additional hardware.
-Jon
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