On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Michael Schnell wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > given that there are other forums to discuss the nios2 soft-core > > processor, is this still an appropriate place to ask about > > building a kernel for the nios2 using uclinux? thanks
> I did not yet start working fulltime on this, but I supposedly will > do so soon. > > I suppose I'll start with a kit from Microtronix and look where to > go on the long run. i've yet to get my hands on a board yet either, but after doing a test build using the available online tarballs and patches, i decided to strip things down to the bare essentials, so i combined the nios2-specific patch, plus just the nios2-related content from the big patch for the 2.6.23 kernel, and what i appear to have now is a set of patches that: 1) is minimal and absolutely nios2-specific, and 2) applies cleanly against the latest git version of the kernel i'm still tweaking a few, final things but if anyone out there has a dev kit and can test this, i can ship them the patch tarball and they can apply it against the latest kernel git tree and see if they can build a minimal kernel for nios2. (i figured that, if i'm going to be starting a new project, i'd just as soon work with the latest git tree, anyway.) so if anyone wants to run a sanity test on this patchset, drop me a note. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by [email protected] To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
