Uncompress Ok, but cannot run linux kernel...

[Matt Porter]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:08:21AM +0800, machael thailer wrote:
>
> > machael thailer wrote:
> > > ..... But I met
> > > some urgent problems ...
> > >     I modified the bootloader codes according to arch/ppc/mbxboot/head.S
> >
> > For starters, you shouldn't be using this "boot loader" for a 750.....
> > How did you configure a kernel to get there in the first place?
> > A 750 should be a CHRP (or PReP, if you have to.....), which will
> > direct you to a working "chrpboot" boot loader.
>
> If I use  "chrpboot " bootloader, I have to provide many functions in my
> boot codes according to CHRP specifications:
>
> 1  "prom"(promptr) functions which can provide with "/chosen" ,"claim" and
> "getprop" services etc in arch/ppc/chrpboot/start.c and in
> arch/ppc/kernel/prom.c .
> 2  device-trees for my custom board.
>
> Are these functions all necessary for booting the linux kernel?

You're doing this all wrong.  There have been a bunch of good examples
of ports to non-CHRP/PReP/Pmac 6xx/7xx/74xx hardware in the linuxppc_2_5
tree for a while now.  Most of them have just been moved into the
new linuxppc_2_4_devel tree.  See the K2, MVME5100, MCPN765, PCore,
PrPMC750, F1, etc. ports for details on how to quickly and easily do
a port to a custom board.

> And do I have to  modify arch/ppc/mm/init.c=>MMU_init() and
> arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c=>identify_machines() to suit my cases?
> I notice that in identify_machines(), there are many types initializations
> functions such as pmac_init(),prep_init(),chrp_init(),apus_init(),
> oak_init(),m8xx_init(),m8260_init(). Do I have to provide my own ***_init()
> functions?

Yes.

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Matt Porter
MontaVista Software, Inc.
mporter at mvista.com

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