Migrate vxworks bsp to linux

[Esben Nielsen]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <001301c60ce8$7b4456a0$1200a8c0 at xbh> you wrote:
> >
> > I have the prpmc610 borad(with MPC8245), I have the board's vxworks bsp, did
> > anybody have experience to migrate  from the vxworks to Linux system? I
> > think the main problem is initial the boards.
>
> You start porting a boot loader, like U-Boot.

To see if I could get Linux to run on our MPC5200 board I politely asked
the vxWorks bootloader to boot the Linux kernel via ftp. It worked. I used
the Denx kernel for the Lite5200. I had to compile the kernel with good
default parameters (ip address, nfsroot, serial setup etc.) as I couldn't
make the  vxWorks bootsector parse kernel parameters. It was a good and
very easy way to demonstrate that Linux could run on our board.

Esben

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
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