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Has anybody put together a tiny distro for PPC?

DISCUSSION Dave Strout 3 participants 3 messages Jul 9, 2002

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Well, things are going well here with my project to get linux + some custom apps on a custom, but very walnut-like, ppc platform. I have a 2.4 kernel + initrd booting on my walnut, the custom software works fine on PPC, and I have a BDI2000 + bdiGDB JTAG debugger on order. As soon as the debugger shows up, I plan on getting PPCBoot running, but in the mean time, I'm working out what the final package will look like.

To that end, I was wondering if anybody has put together a very small distro that's suitable for an initrd? I'm thinking of something like one of the linux-on-a-floppy sized distros (linux router project is one I used in the past), but cross-compiled for PPC?

If not, I'll try to put mine up when it's done, but I thought I'd ask.......

thanks,
dave.

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See Wolfgang Denk's embedded linux development kit:
http://www.denx.de/solutions-en.html#ELDK

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Quoted 12 lines · Dave Strout

Well, things are going well here with my project to get linux + some custom apps on a custom, but very walnut-like, ppc platform. I have a 2.4 kernel + initrd booting on my walnut, the custom software works fine on PPC, and I have a BDI2000 + bdiGDB JTAG debugger on order. As soon as the debugger shows up, I plan on getting PPCBoot running, but in the mean time, I'm working out what the final package will look like.

To that end, I was wondering if anybody has put together a very small distro that's suitable for an initrd? I'm thinking of something like one of the linux-on-a-floppy sized distros (linux router project is one I used in the past), but cross-compiled for PPC?

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If not, I'll try to put mine up when it's done, but I thought I'd ask.......

thanks,
dave.

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In reply to Dave Strout

Hi Dave,

Quoted 5 lines · in message <[email protected]> you wrote:

To that end, I was wondering if anybody has put together a very small distro that's suitable for an initrd? I'm thinking of something like one of the linux-on-a-floppy sized distros (linux router project is one I used in the past), but cross-compiled for PPC?

Have a look at our SELF (Simple Embedded Linux Framework); see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SELF/

Wolfgang Denk

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