On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:13:16AM -0800, brian.auld at adic.com wrote: > 1) After looking at the source tree for linuxppc_2_4 and linuxppc_2_4_devel, > it appears that 440GP support is only in linuxppc_2_4_devel. Does > linuxppc2_4_devel mean "unstable", or is it simply the latest and greatest > ppc kernel code for the 2.4 series that is stable.
The latter -- the trees just haven't been merged yet. > 2) I'm going through iterations of make menuconfig (on linuxppc_2_4_devel > tree) to try and get a kernel for the 440GP successfully built and am not > having much success. Does anyone have a ".config" file that works that I > could take a look at? Should it compile out of the box? I set up my > cross-compile tools using the following: > -> binutils-2.12.90.0.12 > -> gcc-3.2.1 (with gcc-3.2-crossppc.diff patch applied) See arch/ppc/configs/ebony_defconfig One way (there may be better ways) is: cp arch/ppc/configs/ebony_defconfig .config make oldconfig > 3) I plan to use 'Das U-Boot' as my boot loader. Any other snafus/gotchas > anyone would be willing to let me in on ahead of time?? Works fine for me. --Chris ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
