Hello, It never booted properly out of the box.
I raised the issue with the Distributor but have not heard back yet. 73 Eric ----- Start Original Message ----- Sent: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:29:15 +0100 From: Norbert van Bolhuis <[email protected]> To: Eric Cottrell <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Can not get "new" MPC8313e-RDB to boot "as-shipped" flash image > Hi Eric, > > So it never ever booted properly ? > > Hmm, it certainly looks like your distributor (or whoever you got the > MPC8313E-RDB > from) lend it out and got a messed up board back. Or maybe they messed it up > themselfes. > > Go complain and send it back. > > indeed, rev 2.x is better (much less TSEC bugs). > > --- > N. van Bolhuis. > > > > Eric Cottrell wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Thanks for the help. I will look into that. It is confusing as the latest > > ltib appears not to have the aliases. This is my first venture into > > Embedded Linux as our existing PowerPC products use PSOS. Most of my Linux > > experience is on the Intel PC platform. > > > > Yes, the 1.3.3 version was what was shipped with the board. The rootfs and > > kernel appear to be older. So I suspect someone upgraded the uBoot and ran > > into trouble. > > > > I am comparing this with the Rev B board we also got. I hope to return the > > Rev A4 and make the boards all Rev B because it has a later processor. The > > Rev B boards have 1.3.0 so it should need the aliases as well. Looking in > > the uBoot changelogs there are some nice additions and fixes for this board > > so I will look to dig more into uBoot and upgrade it. I hate to stumble > > out of the box. > > > > 73 Eric > > > ----- End Original Message ----- _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
