Newbie on embedded linux on PPC: error: cannot find boot.o

[Wolfgang Reissnegger]

Hi Thomas,

Xilinx is building the tools in the EDK to work with VxWorks and for Standalone systems. In order to compile a Linux kernel you need to get a toolchain from one of the Third Party vendors, such as MontaVista. They have the correct linker scripts for building a kernel.

Cheers,
   Wolfgang

Thomas Gerlach wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> 
> my name is thomas trying to make embedded linux run on a powerpc, but
> we've got special boards here, although we use a xilinx virtex4
> fpga...
> 
> as you said in the nabble-thread (see subject), i set up edk9.1
> software platform settings und ran libgen to get the xparameters*
> files. i copied those bsp files into the kernel tree (i use your
> kernel linux-2.6-virtex from git.secretlabs.ca/git). after
> configuring the kernel settigs, i try
> 
> $ make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-eabi-
> 
> what i get is the following output:
> 
>>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>>   LD      init/mounts.o
>> powerpc-eabi-ld: cannot find boot.o
>> make[1]: *** [init/mounts.o] Error 1
>> make: *** [init] Error 2
> 
> so, i searched for boot.o (it exists) and even copied it into several
> dirs of the linux kernel tree (where i thought i would make sense),
> but the problem still remains.
> 
> googling results in
> 
> http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_ans_display.jsp?iLanguageID=1&getPagePath=17462&BV_SessionID=@@@@1197140711.1188909240@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgaddllgmfkflcefeceihdffhdfkf.0
> 
> 
> and this, too, doesn't take me further in solving the problem.
> 
> i hope you can help me.
> 
> many thanks in advance,
> 
> kind regards
> thomas gerlach
> 
> 
> 
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