ppcboot for mpc8260ads board.

[Omanakuttan]

HI,
I don't think the vmlinux at 0x0 will work. I tried the same with little
success. finally we settled for ppcboot. now I am on the process of
making the board up.
Some parameters are to be passed from the boot loader to the OS. ( what
are they?) Moreover ramdisk loading must be done by boot loader.
This is what I know. if I am wrong, please correct me.
regards,
om.

vnair at hss.hns.com wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Can you pls give some insight what soln worked for you. Was it using BDI or you
> ported ppcBoot.
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> I am trying to put ppclinux onto IBM spruce reference board (MPC750). Although
> linuxppc-2.5 tree has the support for this board, but i am not able to finalize
> my way for the initial success.
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> I have a JTAG (VisionProbe) to download the image.
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> Can you please list some steps to proceed. I have the kernel and the build
> environment ready. I am thinking of building vmlinux (uncompressed) and
> downloading it @ address 0x0 on the board. Will it work ?
>
> Thanks
> - Vikram
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> "Omanakuttan" <omanakuttan at tataelxsi.co.in> on 01/22/2003 02:17:52 PM
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> To:   linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
> cc:    (bcc: Vikram Nair/HSS)
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> Subject:  Re: ppcboot for mpc8260ads board.
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> Please ignore my question. I got it up.
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> Omanakuttan wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>I got my bdi2000, thanks to the cogent arguments supplied by WD.
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>>Facing a problem.
>>1. Is it required to install ppcboot in an mpc8260ads board? If I make a
>>make bzImage , can the resultant image be directly loaded to flash and
>>start running it? the bdi2000 guys says that it is not possible. Is it so?
>>Does it mean that we have to port ppcboot and put it in out end product
>>for loading linux? we have only 8MB of flash.
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>>2. I tried to coross compile ppcboot for mpc8260ads board.
>>make mpc8260ads_config does not work. In the readme, no such target is
>>supported. but in the  boards directory, there is a file for mpc8260ads
>>boards. I am confused and reading the makefile. But seems like a little
>>complex. if anybody can throw some light on compiling ppcboot for
>>mpc8260ads, it would be a great help.
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>>Thanks
>>Om.
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