Greetings We are currently trying to put a Kernel 2.6.26 on a custom board based on the MPC5200 processor and the designed of the board was based on the lite5200b evaluation board.
We would like to have some advice regarding the installation process for this kernel. The hardware currently work (still buggy, but work) with a kernel 2.6.23 compiled with ARCH ppc running on a U-Boot 1.1.6. For what I understand now, the ARCH ppc if kind of deprecated and we have to switch to ARCH powerpc. I'm new to the concept of device tree, do I have to modify it myself or the file wild be generated automatically ? Should it be better for us to upgrade our version of U-Boot to 1.3.* to get the support of device tree? Currently we tried with the wrapper trick of using cuImage.lite5200b and the v1.1.6 but it doesn't seem to work. Also, we would like to know if we have to recompile everything on the board (U-Boot/Kernel/Busybox) since we switched ARCH from ppc to powerpc? We are also wondering what is the cross-compilation tools that you are using? Or do you have any good advice on a choice? Currently we are building with gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6 for ppc on an x86 host running Ubuntu 8.04 or we also have a Fedora Core 7 laptop but, I have see a kernel compilation warning regarding gcc 4.1 saying that it's known to brake the kernel. Should we upgrade everything (U-Boot/Kernel/Busybox) and recreate a new Ramdisk ? Anybody know a good development tools to use with a CodeWarrior USB TAP from freescale ? The CodeWarrior IDE doesn't seems to work properly for us. This is a lot of questions and they maybe unclear since I'm new to all this, but if you need any more information I can provide them. Best Regards, -- Sylvain Lamontagne -------------------- Software Developer Novariant Canada Ext.: 4940 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
