Linux PPC on Sandpoint or YellowKnife board with 750
I am a novice in Linux Embedded. I search information to use it on Motorola board.
Does anyone have successfully cross-compiled linux for MOTOROLA Sandpoint board or a PPC linux binary kernel can be used on this board ?
Does anyone have information to do it ?
Thanks very much
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Cordialement,
Olivier DERVYN
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Does anyone have successfully cross-compiled linux for MOTOROLA Sandpoint board or a PPC linux binary kernel can be used on this board ?
I have gotten linux to boot on the sandpoint. The changes require the sandpoint port of OpenFirmware (firmworks.com). The hardware was flakey, the documentation misleading. My sandpoint system eventually died and I abandoned work on the port. I still have the patches if anyone wants them, of course.
-Michael Thompson
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Quoted 2 lines · Michael Thompson
...... I still have
the patches if anyone wants them, of course.
Of course we want them. Where were you for the past six months when we would discuss the Sandpoint :-)? You are now the third person that has duplicated work by the rest of us. Let's stop that from happening.
-- Dan
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...... I still have
the patches if anyone wants them, of course.
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Of course we want them. Where were you for the past six months when we would discuss the Sandpoint :-)? You are now the third person that has duplicated work by the rest of us. Let's stop that from happening.
-- Dan
Dan,
What is your dev. platform (compiler, JTAG probe and board architecture) ?
What kind of problem stop you ?
I have two sandpoint one with 750+107 and other with 8240, which is your board ?
Do you have used other OS on this board ? (as RTOS or other)
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Olivier DERVYN
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Quoted 2 lines · Olivier DERVYN
What is your dev. platform (compiler, JTAG probe and board architecture) ?
All of my development hosts are Macintosh (iMac, iMac DV, PowerBook, G4 server) running Linux/PPC.
No JTAG or BDM necessary as I am using the ROM on the board (DINK).
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What kind of problem stop you ?
Time and money.
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I have two sandpoint one with 750+107 and other with 8240, which is your board ?
8240.
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Do you have used other OS on this board ? (as RTOS or other)
No.
Motorola gave me the 8240/Sandpoint to develop the kernel. I spent a few weeks of my own time, have a system booting with root NFS (PCI Ethernet), ran Apache and some other tests. I never had the 8259 interrupts working correctly with the OpenPIC on the 8240. I gave the code to MontaVista to continue the development. Depending upon the time available, I will either check in what I have or wait for MontaVista to fix it and then check it in.
The problem with the Sandpoint is we need a better boot rom to support Linux/PPC. Their standard DINK only supports S-record download over the serial port.
-- Dan
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