2.6 support for MPC8541(e)

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Wed Jun 29 00:27:45 EST 2005


You probably need to port the platform code from 2.4 to 2.6 for this  
board.  I'm guessing you are running into some PCI config issue with  
interrupts and the such.

Take a look at arch/ppc/platforms/85xx/* for examples of boards that  
support 85xx processors.

- kumar

On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:03 AM, <jbi130 at yahoo.com> <jbi130 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> I've recently received a GDA PCI-G8400 evaluation board with an
> MPC8541E.  It came with u-boot 1.1.2 and a 2.4.27 kernel.
>
> Our hopes are to get a 2.6 kernel running on this device so it is in
> sync with out MPC8248 based boards.
>
> What is the status of the support for these chips?  When I enable
> CONFIG_SERIAL_TEXT_DEBUG I'm able to get some output, it seems to die
> when initializing openpic.  There also appears to be issues with the
> serial console as I'm not getting printk output at all, and I think I
> should be by the time start_kernel is entered.
>
> My current 2.6.12 builds use the MPC8540_ADS configs as a base.  The
> 2.4 that was received with the board does as well.
>
> For now I'm not concerned with the 'E' part.  My main job is to
> actually add support for the security engine, but I'd like to get 2.6
> up and running first.  Yes, this is my first jump into machine
> specific code..
>
> Thanks.
>
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