Greeting! I have a MPC5200 based custom board with preloaded u-boot. My job is to create some sort of development environment, build linux kernel and userland environment and in the end test the hardware before larger series are built. So far I managed to create GNU toolchain for it with crostool from Dan Kegel. Everything was built without any problems. Of course, I wanted to test this toolchain so I wanted to compile a simple hello_world program load it into the memory of my MPC5200 board and run it. So far I've failed. I admit. I don't know how to compile a program to run without the OS. But I have some clues. I think it needs to be linked properly so all the things OS does for you are inserted into the binary image that is supposed to get executed. I need some detail understanding on this.
Anyhow I want to do this before I compile kernel. Since I'm talking about the kernel let me ask you what kernel you suggest for MPC5200? The latest 2.6.10-rc or the one Sylvain Munaut is maintaining? Next ... I would like to create a development environment that is totally "closed" from my system and I want all the crosstools in it. This way I could ensure none of my native tools are conflicting with cross development. I keep hearing about jails and sanboxes but I don't know what they mean. Ok maybe I really need to google it out here but I'm beat. I'm googling three days already. :D Any tips on creating these kind of environments would be greatly appreciated. I will attach scripts which I used to create toolchain. I hope I did it correctly. My sources of documentation are google, IRC and these two books: Building Embedded Linux, Karim Yaghmour Programming Embeded Systems, Michael Barr TIA, Ivica -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: demo-ppc603e.sh Url: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20041125/908ee16b/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: powerpc-603e.dat Url: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20041125/908ee16b/attachment-0001.txt
