[Debian-coldfire-devel] Booting?

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:00:56PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:38:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > What about an initrd kernel ? or even an initramfs one ? I suppose that you
> > can build a coldfire kernel with builtin ramdisk and load that per tftp ?
> 
> I suppose so.
> 
> > (BTW, i am not home right now, but caring for my sick mother in el salvador,
> 
> Eww.
> 
> > but can someone give me the link to where to download the kernel
> > stuff,
> 
> You can download them from the Freescale website -- _after_ you
> registered, and jumped through a number of hoops.
> 
> Since it's all GPL, however...
> 
> http://people.debian.org:~wouter/*.iso
> 
> There's two versions: one starts with 'ltib' (for 'Linux Target Image
> Builder'), the other is smaller and is the 'PCS' version (for 'Platform
> Creation Suite'). I've been looking at both, and it looks as if you need
> a different (proprietary) software package to make full use of the PCS
> version, whereas the ltib one does not require that. I suggest you get
> yourself that one.
> 
> Note that I just started the upload, with an uplink of approximately
> 20KB/s:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wouter wouter 361M 2006-03-22 15:13 ltib-mcf547x_8x-20051213.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wouter wouter 258M 2006-03-21 19:44 mcf547x_548x-BSP-b19.iso
> 
> ... so that will take a while.

Mmm, not sure if i can download that from here, just a plain tarball would be
welcome, or it will have to wait start of april.
> 
> > and i will have a look at the possibilities, and if there are
> > patches, try to port them to latest 2.6.15/2.6.16-rc).
> 
> Err, 2.6.16 is out since yesterday :-)

Oh, nice. I wonder how the arch=ppc -> arch=powerpc migration did go.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Oh, nice. I wonder how the arch=ppc -> arch=powerpc migration did go.

Friendly,

Sven Luther