PPChameleonEVB Newbie question

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Adrian,

in message <010001c6ed49$aa8ab390$3a0da8c0 at adrianlaptop> you wrote:
> 
> I have a PPChameleonEVB board running a 405EP processor.

DAVE has a lot of pretty detailed application  notes.  Make  sure  to
read their docs.

> I have tried many things, and can now boot Linux 2.6.15 on the board using 
> an NFS share as both root fs and swap.

Swap over NFS? Grrghh... 

> When I try to compile & install the kernel modules on the board, i get an 
> message about perl and then it errors.

Why don't you just use the cross tools?

> 1) Kernel version/Linux distroof the i386 PC used for the cross-compiling.

Should not matter much.

> 2) ELDK version and if there are any patches needed.

For a 2.6 kernel tree you need ELDK 4.0.

> 2) Perl version (or how to stop the Kernel build using perl)

Use the cross tools. It's much faster anyway.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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