Norm, in message <20021022144513.36073.qmail at web13401.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote: > > I would like to powerup my board and have Linux come up automatically > to the prompt. To do this I would like to store ppcboot in partition > 1, the kernel in partition 2, and the root fs in partition 3 and have
What do you mean with "root fs" ? If this is a ramdisk image, you don;t need any flash support in the Linux kernel at all. > ppcboot transfer control to Linux through some environment settings. > I have searched the archives and found an email that seems to outline > this, it says, that the kernel config should have CONFIG_FLASH and > CONFIG_AMD_FLASH turned on, as well as, adding a definition to file > drivers/char/flash_config.c for my board (board = MBX860 and the > definition is the same as TQM8xx). Then a dd command can write the > images to the partitions. I have done this, but I get the following > problem: This refers to our (old) character device flash driver. It does not help you at all when you're trying to mount a filesystem - you'll need a block device than - i. e. support for MTD. > See below for the contents of my dev subdir. Also, is it possible to > do a serial download of the images from a host to the flash with a > target root filesystem utilizing busybox? Yes, of course this is possible. Best regards, 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 Why don't you have a Linux partition installed so you can be working in a programmer-friendly environment instead of a keep-gates'-bank- account-happy one? :-) -- Tom Christiansen ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
