Building a Kernel for the AMCC PPC440EP Bamboo Board

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Thu Mar 3 08:53:08 EST 2005


On Tue, 1 March 2005 17:37:22 +0100, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:14, Zeighami, Roy wrote:
> > 
> > When I select 44x as the CPU type, I don't see "Bamboo" under machine
> > type.  
> 
> This won't work, as Bamboo BSP stuff is currently not added.

Correct.

> > Any suggestions?
> 
> try to use ebony_defconfig

Doesn't work, neither does ocotea.  Both are able to display "TUX!" on
the dot-matrix display, but panic before writing any serial output.

/me has one of these beauties as well and will try to hack up support
for it.  If anyone has patches or suggestions, help is always
appreciated.

Jörn

-- 
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra



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