Just wanted to thank all of you for the detailed feedback and suggestions.
I am going to try them out now and keep my fingers crossed.
thanks again
LK
----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Jander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org; Laxmikant Rashinkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:12:23 AM
Subject: Re: porting linux 2.6.27 to embedded powerpc board
David Jander wrote:
> 4. Be sure that the device(s) necessary to produce output on your console are
> correctly placed in the DT. Also make sure that u-boot knows about it
> (#define OF_STDOUT_PATH... in your u-boot board config file)
OF_STDOUT_PATH is deprecated; you should enable
CONFIG_OF_SERIAL_VIA_ALIAS, and provide aliases in the device tree for
serial0, serial1, etc.
> 6. Remember to always specify the "rootfstype=" option on the commandline if
> booting from anything other than NFS. This was not necessary back in the
> 2.6.15-times AFAICR.
It still should not be necessary.
> 7. Boot with a device-tree (in u-boot: "bootm $addrofkernel - $addrofdtb",
> don't forget the dash if you are not using an initrd). If you don't do this,
> u-boot can't fix your DT, and the kernel probably won't find it either.
s/probably/definitely/
> 8. Be sure to use the correct version of the DTC (DT compiler) for your
> kernel
> (the sources are included nowadays, somewhere in arch/powerpc/boot IIRC). The
> command used to compile, should probably be something like this:
Or just use the most recent DTC.
-Scott
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