In message <DBFABB80F7FD3143A911F9E6CFD477B0056A92B5 at hqemmail02.nvidia.com> you wrote: > > By the way, to the people who mentioned using Debian and Gentoo on the > MPC5200, are there any web-sites that have info on how to do this > (toolchain and/or distro)? I haven't managed to find anything remotely > detailed on cross-building either of these distros. But I'll probably > just do it from scratch now I have NPTL-aware toolchain:-)
You don't have to cross-build anything; you can just use the existing ISO images for installation. For Debian Woody you can find a detailed description (thanks to bernhard Kuhn for this!) at http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/DebianOnPowerpcInstallationHowto In the meantime we swithched to using Ubuntu Linux on the 5200, but here installation is a bit more complicated as you will have to twiddle with the installation ramdisk image, and later perform certain steps manually. It's probably easier to copy the filesystem from a "real" PowerPC system ;-) Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes. -- Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9
