From: Christian Schroeder <christian.schroeder@imms•de>
To: "Bruno R. Barreyra" <bruno.r.barreyra@intel•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Linux on a 823FADS
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:09:52 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <981443392.3a7fa340ef0e2@imp.imms.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A7F4C08.21F4AC7E@intel.com>
Quoting "Bruno R. Barreyra" <bruno.r.barreyra@intel•com>:
>
> Hi.
>
> I've been encharged with the (ungrateful) mission of making Linux run on
> a 823FADS board. I've already got the latest version of ppcboot (0.8.1)
> up and running from Flash, but I'm struggling to get Linux to boot.
>
> How am I supposed to build the kernel? It seems the FADS port has long
> been abandoned. I'm trying to revive it, by including it back into the
> config and making necessary changes in order for the kernel to compile.
> Am I on the right track?
Hi Bruno,
I use mpc8xx-2.2.13 along with some patches from www.solutions4linux.de
on a FADS823 board (Rev. Pilot from 1997). The Board has 2 MB flash and
8 MB dram. Linux runs from flash with an initial ramdisk but you can use
a nfs-mounted root directory too. I use ppcboot 0.7.2 at the moment.
Christian
Dr.-Ing. Christian Schroeder
Institut fuer Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-06 0:57 Linux on a 823FADS Bruno R. Barreyra
2001-02-06 7:09 ` Christian Schroeder [this message]
2001-02-06 19:10 ` Dan Malek
2001-02-06 19:22 ` Leonardo M Teixeira
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