Subject: Re: Problems porting to a custom PPC405GPr board using a vanilla 2.6.10 kernel

From: Matt Porter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:59:05 -0700

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:28:23PM +0100, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to port Linux to a custom PPC405GPr board. Its hardware runs 
> vxWorks fine for more than a year. 

Good, gives a good feeling about the hardware.
 
> My board has no RTC. Is this a problem? 

No, not at all.

> Should I start with another kernel? Can anybody point me to a known good 
> kernel version for a specific PPC405 board?

The stock kernel.org 2.6.10 that you seem to be using is fine.
 
> Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

Working out your BDI issues will be very helpful to debugging. It's
only clear that it passes beyond setup_arch() at this point. That's
good, though.

-Matt