Dear flavio, in message <1E354700654661418593A0D6B5A9D41008943B at mail.azisa.co.za> you wrote: > > I'm a _newbie_ to Linux and am busy porting Linux to a MPC8260ADS > board. PPCBoot is working fine and the Linux kernel seems to boot up > okay up and till the point where it begins to load init, it then > crashes. The trace is shown below. I've also tried forcing sh and
Did you fix the IMMR mapping in PPCBoot? The CFG_DEFAULT_IMMR defi- nition will NOT work with LInux; see the Linux memory map require- ments - You _must_ map the IMMR at 0xF0000000 or above. > bash as the start-up but these also fail with similar errors. I'm > using the binaries provided by the ELDK development package. Also my > changes to the base kernel code (2.4.4) are minimal and are limited > to uart.c (force SCC1 as serial port) and tty_io.c (don't call > rs_8xx_init). Can anyone please point me in the right direction...? Are you sure this was done well? > If the information above is not sufficient please let me know what > more I could provide. Something tries to restart the system and then > it crashes on trying to reboot. Someone please tell me what I should > be looking at? ... > Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k init Looks good so far. > Warning: unable to open an initial console. Did you run the ELDK_MAKEDEV and ELDK_FIXPERM scripts as documented? 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 In C we had to code our own bugs, in C++ we can inherit them. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
