In message <200108210855.JAA00958 at lougher.demon.co.uk> you wrote: > > Regarding PPCBoot, I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that it would > not run on the Vesta (Redwood) boards without modification. In any
This is correct. You will probably need some modifications to get it running there. > case, I would have had to modify the Linux bootloader to use this No. The whole "Linux bootloader" is obsolete when booting from PPCBoot. We don't use it at all. > Agreed. However, I'm not exactly sure if or how reliably the ethernet > drivers in the kernel work on the Redwood. With an initrd image, > I can be sure the data is there, and is uncorrupted... But you cannot easily debug it, which is much worse. Well, you can: attach your BDI2000 and fire up GDB :-) Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
