On 5/4/06, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote: > On 5/4/06, Chris Dumoulin <cdumoulin at ics-ltd.com> wrote: > > I am trying to take a working embedded linux system from kernel 2.4 to > > 2.6. The hardware is a custom board using a Virtex II Pro with PPC405 > > processor. > > The working system uses u-boot 1.1.1 with linux kernel 2.4.18. > > > > I am using the same u-boot and I am trying to port linux kernel 2.6.15 > > to our platform. Using the stuff from the working 2.4 kernel port and > > other PPC4xx platforms in the 2.6.15 code as examples, I believe I have > > done everything required to get the kernel booting. However, the kernel > > seems to hang after being uncompressed. Here is what I see after running > > bootm from u-boot: > > The V2pro is already supported in the 2.6 kernel. Are you using that > code; or starting from scratch? V2Pro (ML300) and V4FX (ML403) are > both supported in the latest 2.6 kernel. > > I had similar problems when I was porting to the V4FX. Do you have a > JTAG debugger (Like a BDI-2000)? I think your best bet is to get in > there with a debugger to find out where it goes off into Lala land. > > Cheers, > g. > > -- > Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. > Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. > (403) 399-0195 > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded >
You could also try enabling early printk....sometimes that helps tell you how far you did or didn't get.
