HI, I don't think the vmlinux at 0x0 will work. I tried the same with little success. finally we settled for ppcboot. now I am on the process of making the board up. Some parameters are to be passed from the boot loader to the OS. ( what are they?) Moreover ramdisk loading must be done by boot loader. This is what I know. if I am wrong, please correct me. regards, om.
vnair at hss.hns.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Can you pls give some insight what soln worked for you. Was it using BDI or > you > ported ppcBoot. > > I am trying to put ppclinux onto IBM spruce reference board (MPC750). Although > linuxppc-2.5 tree has the support for this board, but i am not able to > finalize > my way for the initial success. > > I have a JTAG (VisionProbe) to download the image. > > Can you please list some steps to proceed. I have the kernel and the build > environment ready. I am thinking of building vmlinux (uncompressed) and > downloading it @ address 0x0 on the board. Will it work ? > > Thanks > - Vikram > > > > > > "Omanakuttan" <omanakuttan at tataelxsi.co.in> on 01/22/2003 02:17:52 PM > > To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org > cc: (bcc: Vikram Nair/HSS) > > Subject: Re: ppcboot for mpc8260ads board. > > > > > > Please ignore my question. I got it up. > > Omanakuttan wrote: > >>Hi, >>I got my bdi2000, thanks to the cogent arguments supplied by WD. >> >>Facing a problem. >>1. Is it required to install ppcboot in an mpc8260ads board? If I make a >>make bzImage , can the resultant image be directly loaded to flash and >>start running it? the bdi2000 guys says that it is not possible. Is it so? >>Does it mean that we have to port ppcboot and put it in out end product >>for loading linux? we have only 8MB of flash. >> >>2. I tried to coross compile ppcboot for mpc8260ads board. >>make mpc8260ads_config does not work. In the readme, no such target is >>supported. but in the boards directory, there is a file for mpc8260ads >>boards. I am confused and reading the makefile. But seems like a little >>complex. if anybody can throw some light on compiling ppcboot for >>mpc8260ads, it would be a great help. >> >>Thanks >>Om. >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
