I have linux-2.6.7 running on both MPC8265 and MPC8280 based custom boards.
Firstly, I think your problem may be that the u-boot overwrites the linux image file during decompression, because it is placed too low in memory (0x200000). Try first to set your u-boot environment loadaddr higher. 0x400000 works fine for linux-2.6.7, but another thing I see is that your linux image file is rather large (190c52 hex). My linux-2.6.7 uImage file is f10e9 hex, quite smaller. Has linux-2.6.8 grown so much ? or are you making the wrong image ? You should make uImage, I guess you are aware of that. Miguel "Povolotsky, Alexander" <Alexander.Povolotsky at marconi.com> Sent by: owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org 05.08.04 10:39 To: "'linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org'" <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> cc: "'mcclintock at freescale.com'" <mcclintock at freescale.com> Subject: Has anybody successfuly run linux-2.6.8-rc2 (or any previous linu x 2.6 version) on MPC 82xx ? Hello, I have been told that the first linux 2.6 version, which should work on MPC 82xx is linux-6.8-rc2 ...? So I have cross-compiled "vanilla" linux-2.6.8-rc2 (using Cygwin with quite a few patches from Dan Kegel , Martin Schaffner and others to make cross-compiling work - except for netfilter code, which doesn't cross-compile on Cygwin and needs to be disabled, which I did) for ppc, 82xx and created uimage (used mkimage tool from u-boot-1.1.1, which I have built also on Cygwin with the latest Yuli Barcohen's patch). I have loaded this uimage onto PQ2 ADS witn MPC8270 (U-Boot version loaded on the PQ2 ADS flash is still 1.0.0.) and tried to run it with "bootm" - but it fails (resets) immediately after decompressing the image ... and I do not have 82xx back-end Jtag probe/debugger available to me to see what is happening... U-Boot 1.0.0 (Jan 30 2004 - 16:09:23) => tftpboot 200000 uimagenfs TFTP from server 172.16.240.200; our IP address is 172.16.119.3 Filename 'uimagenfs'. Load address: 0x200000 Loading: T ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ############################################################# done Bytes transferred = 1641554 (190c52 hex) =>bootm Has anybody successfuly run linux-2.6.8-rc2 (or previous linux 2.6 version) on MPC 82xx ? If so, could you share with me ".config" file used ? On another more general subject - does Freescale (former Motorola) has a single focal point person who's charter is to promote Linux board support on Motorola development boards (aka Linux czar) - do you have his contact info ? I know that there were Linux OS Development Breakout Sessions SNDF (Smart Networks Developer Forum ) April, 2004 Dallas http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=02VS0llCc5pzMP5 51361587974 So somebody should stand behind Linux development activity at Freescale/ Motorola (both IBM and HP do have dedicated Linux Labs and people working strictly on Linux ...) I guess ... Thanks, Best Regards, Alex ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/