Viable PPC platform?

2006-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message 20060509171520.GA10886 at gate.ebshome.net you wrote: After many years of doing embedded Linux stuff I still don't understand why people are so fond of initrd. For temporary stuff - tempfs is much better and flexible. For r/o stuff - just make separate MTD partition (cramfs,

Help Needed: input overrun(s)

2006-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I am currently involve in development of Multi-Channel Controller (MCC) driver for MPC8260 processor. Whenever we are loading the driver, on the console we are receiving a print ttyS: 1 input overrun(s) along with other prints of the driver and resulting in scrambled output. Can

Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.

2006-05-10 Thread hangtoo
I try to make a new uRamdisk for my bubinga board(linux-2.6.14,PPC405EP). actully I just copy the most of the files in the board,and compiled busybox with ppc tools. but when I use the new uRamdisk for a try,it just showed up this errors(as follow),then reboot,back and forth...

Calculating virtual address from physical address

2006-05-10 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Chris Dumoulin wrote: Thanks for your reply; I found it very useful and interesting. Now, I have a whole bunch of questions. You said that the temporary TLB entries setup in head_4xx.S will eventually be replaced. Where is the code that creates these new TLB entries later on? Are the

Viable PPC platform?

2006-05-10 Thread Alex Zeffertt
On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:15:20 -0700 Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:41:01PM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:38:19 -0400 geneSmith gd.smth at gmail.com wrote: I have a ppc405gpr system with 64M ram and 4Meg flash in a AM29LV320.

Help Needed: input overrun(s)

2006-05-10 Thread Stevan Ignjatovic
Hello, On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 06:33, s.maiti at tcs.com wrote: Hi all, I am currently involve in development of Multi-Channel Controller (MCC) driver for MPC8260 processor. Whenever we are loading the driver, on the console we are receiving a print ttyS: 1 input overrun(s) along with

Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Iribarne (GMail)
On 5/10/06, hangtoo hangtoo at 163.com wrote: I try to make a new uRamdisk for my bubinga board(linux-2.6.14,PPC405EP). actully I just copy the most of the files in the board,and compiled busybox with ppc tools. but when I use the new uRamdisk for a try,it just showed up this errors(as

Help Needed: input overrun(s)

2006-05-10 Thread Rune Torgersen
-Original Message- From: Stevan Ignjatovic Hello, console we are receiving a print ttyS: 1 input overrun(s) along with other prints of the driver and resulting in scrambled output. Can anyone suggest why this is happening? Is the driver affecting the uart driver? As

IMAP_ADDR on PPC 8xx

2006-05-10 Thread Walter L. Wimer III
Thanks, Dan! This is exactly the kind of feedback I was seeking. Based on your comments and Wolfgang's comments, I conclude that: 1. The U-Boots on my MPC885ADS and MPC8272ADS boards are unequivocally broken and should be replaced with ones from the official U-Boot source

Calculating virtual address from physical address

2006-05-10 Thread Eugene Surovegin
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:04:30AM -0400, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: [skip] Unless I am completely mistaken, machine checks are not cause by softwded are or programming errors, they are cause by hardware problems, You can trivially trigger MachineChecks without any hardware problems -

Viable PPC platform?

2006-05-10 Thread Eugene Surovegin
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:11:41PM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote: On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:15:20 -0700 Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:41:01PM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:38:19 -0400 geneSmith gd.smth at gmail.com wrote: I

IMAP_ADDR on PPC 8xx

2006-05-10 Thread Dan Malek
On May 10, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Walter L. Wimer III wrote: FYI, here's a table from the MPC885ADS PowerQUICC(tm) Application Development System User's Guide, available on Freescale's website. This table seems to confirm how they've configured their U-Boot -- the IMMR is set to 0x0220...

Need help debugging

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Iribarne (GMail)
ok, so I've got my BDI2000 working and talking to my 8260. I read as much info as I could find on this but I still think I'm missing something. I have a uBoot image and I wait for the system to download my kernel. Not through the BDI, I just let the uBoot boot image do it the normal way. I

Help: Linux porting to custom target hw

2006-05-10 Thread Jayanta Das
with root fs NFS minted and later on the RAMDISK. Appreciate the help. Regards. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20060510/0fb3653c/attachment.htm

IMAP_ADDR on PPC 8xx

2006-05-10 Thread John Rigby
Thanks Dan for the extra info. Just to let everyone know even though this turned out to not be our problem we here at Freescale are looking at how we can make sure this does not happen in the future. We want any uboot shipped with future Freescale boards to have the correct behavior. We also

IMAP_ADDR on PPC 8xx

2006-05-10 Thread Walter L. Wimer III
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:45 -0400, Dan Malek wrote: This may be fine for non-Linux purposes, but it looks like we need to spread some gospel to Freescale regarding the correct IMMR address for U-Boot / Linux I think you better be pointing fingers at the clueless person that provided