Initrd and PPCbug, can it work?

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Apr 27 08:09:44 EST 2004


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:16:09PM +0200, okorpil at fh-landshut.de wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Target hardware: MVME2100, MPC8240 microcontroller - PowerPC 603e CPU
[snip]
> Is this even possible with the PPCbug, or do I need a Linux-friendly
> bootloader? I initially guessed, that if at bootup everything is
> relocated, that would actually suffice, and no additional information from
> the bootloader is required??

It works from PPCBug.  At least with cramfs, I _believe_ there is, or
has been a problem with creating an image on an LE machine for a BE
machine, and vice versa.  What happens when you try and use an ext2
ramdisk?

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Tom Rini
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