Anyone using mpc832x_mds & freescale's GIT repo?

[Kim Phillips]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:15:41 +0100
Alex Zeffertt <ajz at cambridgebroadband.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I've got an MPC8323E-MDS-PB development board, which is
> running a year-old BSP from freescale.  I wanted to track
> the most current developments so I cloned
> 
> 	http://opensource.freescale.com/pub/scm/linux-2.6-83xx.git
> 
that tree is obsolete; I'll label it so to avoid confusion.

> and rebuilt with ARCH=powerpc and using the mpc832x_mds_defconfig.
> 
> I now don't get any serial console output after u-boot has
> started the kernel.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1.	Is anyone else using this GIT repo with this board?
> 
please use the mpc83xx custodian tree on denx.de:

{git-,cg-}{clone,pull} git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot-mpc83xx.git

> 2.	Is there an example u-boot environment for starting the latest kernels
> 	on this board?

the nfsboot and ramboot commands found in that board's default
environment specify the fdt address with the new bootm syntax.

> 
> 3.	Am I using the right ARCH.  (I chose ARCH=powerpc because there's
> 	no defconfig file for this board under arch/ppc!)
> 
yup.

Kim