Wolfgang,
You will get better answers from the freescale 68k forum and freescale tech
support.
I don't think this is a big hang out for LTIB users, and you may be better
off using the LTIB distro form freescale, as they do support it.
I used under readhat myself.
Jim


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Wolfgang Wegner <wolfg...@leila.ping.de>wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> after trying myself for some time, but finally giving up after all
> approaches were in vain, I seek help from you.
>
> I want to use (uC)linux on an MCF5445x, and can not get anything to
> work yet. One of the problems might be I am using a Debian machine
> as a build machine, but I am not sure.
>
> Here is what I tried so far:
> - use ltib-mcfv4m-20090730 from freescale
>  Does not build correctly probably because of problems running on Debian
>  (Fails during the first steps of kernel compile, seemingly because
>   the wrong compiler is called)
> - after passing some of the initial stages in LTIB, I took out the
>  kernel 2.6.25 with their patches and get a running kernel at least
>  (almost independent of the toolchain I use)
>  However, the kernel is set up to use the MMU and it seems this is
>  not easily changed.
> - get the kernel out of the above LTIB, put it into uClinux-dist-20100117
>  and tweak it a little bit for using the mmu (basically I ripped the
>  config.arch settings from a completely different platform already
>  using the mmu)
>
> The last thing seemed to be the most promising solution, but now I am
> having a toolchain problem:
> Using some m68k-uclinux-* toolchain from codesourcery (working for
> MCF532x without MMU) does not work for MCF5445x with MMU, and using
> m68k-linux-gnu-* toolchain from codesourcery does not understand the
> ld options used by uClinux...
>
> Is there anybody out there using uClinux for an MCF5445x? I do not need
> MMU support, so if there exists a kernel without MMU support and thus
> no additional hassle concerning the toolchain this would also be welcome.
>
> (Of course, I can try porting the existing kernel to MCF5445x, but
> considering my little knowledge about such basic porting this would not
> be very fast and not very clean either...)
>
> Regards,
> Wolfgang
>
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