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From: Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@barco•com>
To: Patrick Huesmann <tricknology@gmx•de>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org, samlinuxppc@yahoo•com.cn
Subject: Re: How to port ppc-linux to new custom boards? (virtexII)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:25:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040824072535.GN15035@smtp.barco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18802.1093328823@www32.gmx.net>


> > Where did you download the Montavista 2_4_devel?

If size is an issue for your distrib, have a look at uclibc [1],
busybox [2] (buildroot [3] and ptxdist [4] for configuring your final
system). When compared to MVL (configured with devrocket), you'll end
up with a much cleaner and smaller system (about half the size).

buildroot is a Makefile based system to setup your cross compilation
environment and creates your target FS.

ptxdist is a kconfig based all but the kitchen sinck approach, haven't
really checked it out but it looks really impressive, supports uclibc
and busybox (IIRC).

A very good general development environment can be found in ELDK [5].

Zhe bootloader is of course das U-Boot [6].

Unless you have very specific requirements, the normal kernel is as good
as a branched version:
$ make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-
$ make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_82xx-

If you are using GNU/Debian, there is a nice tutorial for creating the
cross packages [7].

Finally, do not overestimate the commercial support, to my experience;
the collaborative mailing lists are often as good if not better to point
you in the correct direction due to the diverse expertises of the ppl on
the list.

[1] http://www.uclibc.org/
[2] http://www.busybox.net/
[3] http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist_en.html
[4] http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/
[5] http://www.denx.de/ELDK/
[6] http://u-boot.sourceforge.net/
[7] http://people.debian.org/~debacle/cross.html

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-24  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-24  6:27 How to port ppc-linux to new custom boards? (virtexII) Patrick Huesmann
2004-08-24  7:25 ` Marc Leeman [this message]
2004-08-25  7:34   ` Marius Groeger
2004-08-25  7:57     ` Marc Leeman
2004-08-25 13:52     ` David Ho
2004-08-25 14:30       ` Peter Vandenabeele
2004-08-25 20:08         ` Handling of cascaded interrupt controllers Jeff Domogala
2004-08-26  7:02         ` How to port ppc-linux to new custom boards? (virtexII) Marc Leeman
2004-08-24  8:01 ` Oliver Fuchs
2004-08-24  8:31 ` Peter Ryser
     [not found] <31481.1093602240@www36.gmx.net>
2004-08-27 11:18 ` Patrick Huesmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-23 15:17 Patrick Huesmann
2004-08-24  1:30 ` Song Sam
2004-08-24  4:14 ` Peter Ryser
2004-08-24  8:51 ` Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2004-08-24  9:14   ` Patrick Huesmann
2004-08-24  9:42     ` Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
2004-08-24 10:01     ` Song Sam
2004-08-25  2:00   ` Song Sam

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