ML507 EDK 10.1

[somshekar c kadam]

Hi John Linn,

Ignore prvious mail now I ma bale to get Linux up and running 
thanks for all the support, was able to create ace file using the bit
stream of linux_support it boots perfectly.
Thanks a lot for all the help

Regards
Neelu

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 08:35 -0600, John Linn wrote:
> Hi Neelu,
> 
> The easiest way to get a good baseline with the board and the kernel is
> to use the bitstream for the board that we provide in the file,
> linux_support.tar.gz, on http://git.xilinx.com.
> 
> In the PPC440 directory of the support file, there's a bit stream for
> the board. If you don't use a Xilinx probe to download to the board, you
> will need to create an ACE file from that bit stream, but it sounds like
> you know how to do that.
> 
> I know the state of the Xilinx Git tree, but I don't know the state of
> Grant's for sure. We have baselined our Git tree such that you should be
> able to make it work quick and easy (that's our goal).
> 
> To build arch/powerpc, the following commands should create zImage in
> the arch/powerpc/boot directory that can be used with the bitstream from
> the linux_support.tar.gz file.  I am currently using the ELDK 4.1 tools
> to build the kernel.
> 
> > make ARCH=powerpc ml507_defconfig
> > make ARCH=powerpc zImage
> 
> We also provide a ramdisk image in the support file, you can build it
> also after copying the ramdisk images into the arch/powerpc/boot
> directory.  The default command line of the kernel, in the ml507.dts
> file in the arch/powerpc/boot/dts directory, is setup to use the
> ramdisk.
> 
> > make ARCH=powerpc zImage.initrd
> 
> Hope that helps,
> John Linn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces+john.linn=xilinx.com at ozlabs.org
> [mailto:linuxppc-embedded-bounces+john.linn=xilinx.com at ozlabs.org] On
> Behalf Of somshekar c kadam
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 4:19 PM
> To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Subject: ML507 EDK 10.1
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Currently I am working with ML507 Base Reference design. I  have
> installed Eval 10.1 edk I am bale to create ace file using xmd with base
> download.bit. and able to boot the board. Now I want to boot the board
> with Xilinx Linux kernel from Xilinx git tree. I am facing compilation
> problem with zImage.dts for ml507_defconfig.
> 
>   
> 
> 
> now I need to create ace file for Linux for ML507.
> I tried creating zImage.dts its failing. Kernel error see below
> 
> Please help or give some pointers wherein I can compile zImge.dts. this
> is from latest git tree. Seems for me arch/powerpc wrapper code is
> broken. Please suggest.
> currently I have no bdi I need to stick to Ace compact Flash booting.
> Also bit confused where we have two git tree one is Xilinx git tree one
> more from Grant Likely which should I use ?
> 
> Thanks In Advance
> 
> Neelu
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> WRAP    arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.dts
> DTC: dts->dtb  on file
> "/home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc/bo
> ot/dts/ml507.dts"
> objcopy: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `vmlinux'
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.dts] Error 1
> make: *** [zImage.dts] Error 2
> 
> 
> 
> 
> WIth Verbose =1 
> 
> 
>  /bin/sh
> /home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc/boo
> t/wrapper -c -o arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.dts -p dts   -s
> /home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc/boo
> t/dts/ml507.dts vmlinux
> + kernel=
> + ofile=zImage
> + platform=of
> + initrd=
> + dtb=
> + dts=
> + cacheit=
> + binary=
> + gzip=.gz
> + CROSS=
> + object=arch/powerpc/boot
> + objbin=arch/powerpc/boot
> + tmpdir=.
> + '[' 8 -gt 0 ']'
> + case "$1" in
> + cacheit=y
> + shift
> + '[' 7 -gt 0 ']'
> + case "$1" in
> + shift
> + '[' 6 -gt 0 ']'
> + ofile=arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.dts
> + shift
> + '[' 5 -gt 0 ']'
> + case "$1" in
> + shift
> + '[' 4 -gt 0 ']'
> + platform=dts
> + shift
> + '[' 3 -gt 0 ']'
> + case "$1" in
> + shift
> + '[' 2 -gt 0 ']'
> +
> dts=/home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc
> /boot/dts/ml507.dts
> + shift
> + '[' 1 -gt 0 ']'
> + case "$1" in
> + '[' -z '' ']'
> + kernel=vmlinux
> + shift
> + '[' 0 -gt 0 ']'
> + '['
> -n
> /home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc/boo
> t/dts/ml507.dts ']'
> + '[' '!'
> -r
> /home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc/boo
> t/dts/ml507.dts -a -r
> arch/powerpc/boot/dts//home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6
> -xlnx/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/ml507.dts ']'
> + '[' -z '' ']'
> + dtb=dts.dtb
> + arch/powerpc/boot/dtc -O dtb -o dts.dtb -b
> 0
> /home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc/boo
> t/dts/ml507.dts
> DTC: dts->dtb  on file
> "/home/neelu/xilinx/xilinx_gittree/test44/linux-2.6-xlnx/arch/powerpc/bo
> ot/dts/ml507.dts"
> + '[' -z vmlinux ']'
> + platformo=arch/powerpc/boot/dts.o
> + lds=arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds
> + ext=strip
> + objflags=-S
> + tmp=./zImage.24209.o
> + ksection=.kernel:vmlinux.strip
> + isection=.kernel:initrd
> + case "$platform" in
> ++ basename vmlinux
> + vmz=./vmlinux.strip
> + '[' -z y -o '!' -f ./vmlinux.strip.gz -o ./vmlinux.strip.gz -ot
> vmlinux ']'
> + objcopy -S vmlinux ./vmlinux.strip.24209
> objcopy: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `vmlinux'
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.dts] Error 1
> make: *** [zImage.dts] Error 2
> 
> 
> 
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