LinuxPPC on a Motorola MVME2400

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Simone Piccardi wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> we buy just some day ago a Motorola MVME 2431 VME board, to use it for
> data acquisition for a Cosmic Ray Physics experiment. I saw from
> previous mail that someone has started LinuxPPC on this board. 
> Could you give us some info about it? 
> Because I'm new to this board and to LinuxPPC (I always used linux on a
> PC machine), there is some place (or any kind of documentation)
> describing the boot procedure (we would like to use the net booting by
> tftp)? 

I have Linux/PPCeeee running quite well on 2600s. The corresponding
patches are at:

	ftp://vcorr1.iram.es/pub/linux-2.2/

in files mvme2600.generic-patch-2.2.4 and mvme2600.vme-patch-2.2.4.
(this last one is a VME driver subsystem which I hope to officialy
announce soon, if I can find time to do something else than answering
e-mail).

I've not yet upgraded the various zImage (next week). They have serial
consoles and I've used root-on-NFS with 2.2.1. 

However, the 2400 has a new chipset (Hawk) which is not yet recognized.
If you have the technical information about it, it will be fairly easy to
add support in the early boot code. 

	Regards,
	Gabriel.


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