Unable to Boot 2.6.19.2 from ELDK 4.1 on MPC8349E MDS

[Gary Kenaley]

I have been evaluating Freescale 2.6.11, Wind River 2.6.14, and am now
attempting Denx 2.6.19 (from ELDK 4.1) - running on the Rev 1.0 MPC8349E
MDS (V1.1 CPU). I boot 2.6.19.2 using the factory u-boot 1.1.3 and the
kernel immediately hangs:
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK {hangs forever}

The following boot arguments work when I swap in a Wind or Freescale
uImage in /tftpboot, so I know that the ELDK filesystem and devnodes are
okay:

bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw
nfsroot=10.2.11.175:/home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/ppc_6xx
ip=10.2.11.184:10.2.11.175:10.2.0.1:255.255.128.0:83493mds2:eth0:off
console=ttyS0,115200

I installed the ELDK 4.1 as per the instructions (including running the
FIX scripts) on a Red Hat 4 U4(2.6.9-42) PC host. I then ran these
commands on the host:
export
PATH=/home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/usr/bin:/home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/bin:$PATH
export CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_6xx-
export ARCH=powerpc
cd /home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/ppc_6xx/usr/src/linux-2.6.19.2
${CROSS_COMPILE}make clean
${CROSS_COMPILE}make V=1 mpc834x_mds_defconfig
${CROSS_COMPILE}make V=1 all

cp -p
/home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/ppc_6xx/usr/src/linux-2.6.19.2/arch/powerpc/boot/
uImage /tftpboot/

${CROSS_COMPILE}make V=1 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/ppc_6xx
modules_install

Since the host depmod is not a cross version and segfaults, and the ELDK
versions refuse to run, I also ran:
perl /home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/usr/bin/depmod.pl -v -F System.map -b
/home/gkenaley/ELDK4.1/ppc_6xx/lib/modules/2.6.19.2

At that point I u-boot the target and it hangs forever as shown above.
I did a lot of comparisons to the Wind and Freescale .config files and
also tried turning off CONFIG_PCI (since I have only the MDS processor
board), but it did not help solve the problem. I also tried running
xconfig and producing a more complete configuration, but the boot
process fails exactly the same way with that larger uImage.

I also tried a "full source rebuild from scratch" for the ELDK 4.1, but
I found that these SRPMS were originally misnamed (could not be found in
CVS, rpmfind, or the ELDK source CD-ROM) in
/home/gkenaley/ELDK/V4.1/build/SRPMS.lst:

#rpm-4.4.1-22_4.src.rpm
#httpd-2.0.54-10.2_2.src.rpm
#libtool-1.5.16.multilib2-2_2.src.rpm
#module-init-tools-3.1-4_1.src.rpm
#nfs-utils-1.0.7-12_3.src.rpm
#pam-0.79-9.5_2.src.rpm
#procps-3.2.5-6.3_2.src.rpm
#tar-1.15.1-10_2.src.rpm
#util-linux-2.12p-9.12_3.src.rpm

After correcting (?) SRPMS.lst to contain the names shown above, the
build ran for about 1/2 hour and then failed in rpm-4.4.1-22_4 with
various undefined references to ELF parameters.

Questions, please:
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1. Should I expect this kernel to boot on the MPC8349E MDS, or do I need
to find and apply a variety of patches?

2. Any idea why I have problems doing the "ELDK 4.1 full source rebuild
from scratch"?

3. Do you see anything else important that I should change in my
process?

Since I am a bit of a newbie, I'll be grateful to get a lot of specific
advice.

Thanks, Gary