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From: Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm•de>
To: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale•com>
Cc: "<jbi130@yahoo•com>" <jbi130@yahoo•com>, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: 2.6 support for MPC8541(e)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:06:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C17579.5030500@anagramm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A6920FBA-2DBF-4E09-9B8D-1612A4DA6AAD@freescale.com>

Hi!

I had to do the same for my MPC8540 board (Microsys PM854).
It's based on the MPC8540_ADS platform, too with
changes in PCI subsystem and Gigabit Ethernet (gianfar_phy).

Enable early serial and enjoy printk.
Try to find out, where it hangs.

Greets,

Clemens Koller
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Kumar Gala wrote:
> You probably need to port the platform code from 2.4 to 2.6 for this  
> board.  I'm guessing you are running into some PCI config issue with  
> interrupts and the such.
> 
> Take a look at arch/ppc/platforms/85xx/* for examples of boards that  
> support 85xx processors.
> 
> - kumar
> 
> On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:03 AM, <jbi130@yahoo•com> <jbi130@yahoo•com>  wrote:
> 
>> I've recently received a GDA PCI-G8400 evaluation board with an
>> MPC8541E.  It came with u-boot 1.1.2 and a 2.4.27 kernel.
>>
>> Our hopes are to get a 2.6 kernel running on this device so it is in
>> sync with out MPC8248 based boards.
>>
>> What is the status of the support for these chips?  When I enable
>> CONFIG_SERIAL_TEXT_DEBUG I'm able to get some output, it seems to die
>> when initializing openpic.  There also appears to be issues with the
>> serial console as I'm not getting printk output at all, and I think I
>> should be by the time start_kernel is entered.
>>
>> My current 2.6.12 builds use the MPC8540_ADS configs as a base.  The
>> 2.4 that was received with the board does as well.
>>
>> For now I'm not concerned with the 'E' part.  My main job is to
>> actually add support for the security engine, but I'd like to get 2.6
>> up and running first.  Yes, this is my first jump into machine
>> specific code..
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-28 14:03 2.6 support for MPC8541(e) jbi130
2005-06-28 14:27 ` Kumar Gala
2005-06-28 16:06   ` Clemens Koller [this message]

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