booting MGT5100?

Chris Heintzelman heintz at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Apr 25 01:31:42 EST 2003


Thanks for the info!  I'm also using an icecube board.  I'll grab the
code from mv when you post it there.
Do you use a bootloader or do you just use dbug to run a zImage?

-Chris H.

>On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:55:42PM +0000, Chris Heintzelman wrote:
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>>I noticed that a few months ago someone mentioned booting Linux on one
>>of these boards (MGT5100).  There didn't seem to be much discussion
>>though; I have one of these boards and would also like to boot linux on
>>it, I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a good starting point on
>>this?  Any help is appreciated.  I've got a toolchain and kernel built
>>but am having no luck with it.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Chris H.
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>I've been working with Kent Borg to bring up linux on the mgt5100.
>As Peter said, they're running it on an icecube, while I have a glacier
>system.  The serial driver seems reasonably solid.  I've been working
>on an ethernet driver and started testing it today.  It has sent and
>received a few packets but lots of cleanup remains.  I plan to put up a
>bk repository on source.mvista.com in a couple of weeks.  I could send
>you a tarball if you'd rather not wait.
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>-Dale Farnsworth
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