On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Koss, Mike (Mission Systems) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason why the mainline 2.6.25.3 (and from what I could see .4) > is missing the files to build for the Xilinx Virtex platform? > > Or in other words, I tried to build from 2.6.25.3 for the Xilinx Virtex > under arch/powerpc (because arch/ppc actually crashes when once apps start > to run) and it failed when trying to actually create the zImage. I hopped > over to Xilinx's git server and noticed a bunch of missing entries in the > boot/Makefile and source code to actually support the complete image build > for a Xilinx Virtex PPC405. > > When is the Xilinx Virtex support going to be mainline official? I need to > be able to grab a stable kernel and work from there rather than using the > latest -rc that Xilinx is hosting on their git server.
Working on it. Biggest problem is getting the device drivers in shape. However, other than Ethernet support, current arch/powerpc (head of Linus' tree, not 2.6.25) should work for building virtex kernels. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
