Status on 403 (Oak) support

[Mark Hatle]

> Donovan, Chris wrote:
>

I (with the help of Matt Locke) are working with on 403GCX support.
It's in pretty bad shape right now.  If you are interested in helping, I
have some initial patches that fix simple 403 vs 405 differences.

--Mark

> > I'm trying to run linux on a board with a 403GCX processor on it. I ran into
> > an error while trying to compile the kernel as follows:
> >
> > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > {standard input}:83: Error: unsupported relocation type
> > {standard input}:84: Error: unsupported relocation type
> > {standard input}:111: Error: unsupported relocation type
> > {standard input}:128: Error: unsupported relocation type
> > {standard input}:145: Error: unsupported relocation type
> > {standard input}:149: Error: unsupported relocation type
> > {standard input}:64: Error: unsupported relocation type
> > make[1]: *** [ppc4xx_pic.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/ctemp/src/src-linuxppc_2_4/arch/ppc/kernel'
> > make: *** [_dir_arch/ppc/kernel] Error 2
> >
> > While searching the archives I found a thread which mentioned that that
> > kernel no longer compiles for the 403 processor and there was no mention of
> > a solution to the problem. Which version of the kernel should work on the
> > 403GCX? Thanks for your help.

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