Wolfgang Reissnegger wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Xilinx is building the tools in the EDK to work with VxWorks and for > Standalone systems. In order to compile a Linux kernel you need to get a > toolchain from one of the Third Party vendors, such as MontaVista. They have > the correct linker scripts for building a kernel. > > Cheers, > Wolfgang > > Thomas Gerlach wrote: > >> hi folks, >> >> >> my name is thomas trying to make embedded linux run on a powerpc, but >> we've got special boards here, although we use a xilinx virtex4 >> fpga... >> >> as you said in the nabble-thread (see subject), i set up edk9.1 >> software platform settings und ran libgen to get the xparameters* >> files. i copied those bsp files into the kernel tree (i use your >> kernel linux-2.6-virtex from git.secretlabs.ca/git). after >> configuring the kernel settigs, i try >> >> $ make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-eabi- >> >> what i get is the following output: >> >> >>> CHK include/linux/version.h >>> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h >>> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh >>> CHK include/linux/compile.h >>> LD init/mounts.o >>> powerpc-eabi-ld: cannot find boot.o >>> make[1]: *** [init/mounts.o] Error 1 >>> make: *** [init] Error 2 >>> >> so, i searched for boot.o (it exists) and even copied it into several >> dirs of the linux kernel tree (where i thought i would make sense), >> but the problem still remains. >> >> googling results in >> >> http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_ans_display.jsp?iLanguageID=1&getPagePath=17462&BV_SessionID=@@@@1197140711.1188909240@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgaddllgmfkflcefeceihdffhdfkf.0 >> >> >> and this, too, doesn't take me further in solving the problem. >> >> i hope you can help me. >> >> many thanks in advance, >> >> kind regards >> thomas gerlach >>
hi, thank you much for this hint, i'll try it. this was the last thing i thought of... ;) kepp on cross-compiling, :) regards thomas _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
