Newbie question on Linux-PPC

Wed Jun 1 18:05:45 EST 2005

In message <3B58B875DBDE504F94D2A1A1C9DF6F1FD00500 at bglnt005.asia.ad.flextronics.com> you wrote:
> I am having a MPC8260 based board with the following memory map.
>       
> Device      Start address     End address
> EPROM       0x00000000        0x03FFFFFF
> SDRAM       0x04000000        0x13FFFFFF
>  
> I have a doubt regarding Linux Port onto this board. I have read on the web
> that Linux usually expects the SDRAM at 0x0, is it that the porting of linux
> onto this board is totally impossible? If the porting is possible can anyone

No, proting is still possible, it involves just one additional  step:
fixong your boot loader to provide a different memory map.

> help me out where to change the memory mapping of Linux for MPC8260?

In your boot loader.

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> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
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Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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