On Tue, 25 May 2004, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >i'm definitely interested in what it took for you to get this to work. > >currently, i've got a perfectly working system, booting a 2.4-based > >kernel, compiled with ELDK 3.0, on a customized 8xx board. this system > >uses the now-deprecated "devfs". > > > I used an NFS mounted root ELDK 3.0 filesystem. By mistake I booted with > devfs and everything worked except the telnet networked logins. > Did not have time to check why though. oh, so devfs, although deprecated, will still work? that's good to know, one less thing i need to fight with. > >i bk-cloned the linuxppc-2.5 tree, did "make menuconfig" as best i could > >(guessing every so often at some of the new features), compiled a new > >kernel and, glory be, actually got the new kernel to boot up to the point > >of trying to start "init", at which point it hung. > > > Well you wont get any further than this using the stock kernel. > > I had to use my own ethernet and a ported over serial uart driver for CPM2 > boards. > > Also some tweaking is needed to the irq dispatch and defining out > some mmu staff which do not apply for 8xx. ok, i'll just hang out and wait for changes to eventually appear. no big rush on my part. thanks. rday ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
