ppcboot

2003-03-20 Thread Felix Domke
Pascal wrote: > I'm working on a motorola MPc8xx. i would like to know if it's possible > to run ppcboot trough an another ppcboot on dbox2, we boot the ppcboot-elf from another firststage bootloader. works. on another system (dreambox), i boot u-boot from another firststate bootloader (IBM's o

Linux console on virtual Uart?

2003-03-20 Thread Milton D. Miller II
At least for the archives, I will point out the the hvc console (located at drivers/char/hvc_console.c) is a polling mode driver for a serial style console, that calls a function to read up to 16 bytes at a time from some other buffer. This might be easier to adapt (just write a pair of hvc_{get_

8250 IDMA BD Len?

2003-03-20 Thread Penn, John
Does anybody know why the length field of an 8250 IDMA BD would not contain the number of bytes transferred before /DONE is asserted. This is a dual memory transfer from the local bus to 60x memory. I am initially setting the BD length to 1752. I can see the correct length in the bd_cnt field in

start/ load addresses for kernel

2003-03-20 Thread Jerry Walden
Greetings: I just received a piece of advice on something I should pay attention to. I am using u-boot, and the advice is as follows: "A note, since you are building for a non openbios kernel, you will need to change the make file. The start/ load addresses and all are different" Could someone

kgdb and console output

2003-03-20 Thread Ibon Gotxi Garcia
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 17:25, Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:49:50AM +, Ibon Gotxi Garcia wrote: > > [snip] > > INIT: INIT: NIT: IT: T: : version 2.78 bootingersion 2.78 bootingrsion > > 2.78 bootingsion 2.78 bootingon 2.78 booting > > > > It's related to the 'console' support in

ppcboot

2003-03-20 Thread Magnus Damm
Hi, > I'm working on a motorola MPc8xx. i would like to know if it's possible > to run ppcboot trough an another ppcboot I know people that run ppcboot from miniboot. http://opensource.se/projects/miniboot/ / magnus ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/

ppcboot

2003-03-20 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <000d01c2eeaf$83a4fa70$2dbe3e3e at cmh> you wrote: > > I'm working on a motorola MPc8xx. i would like to know if it's possible > to run ppcboot trough an another ppcboot Not easily. You will have to modify the code, and to do so you ned a pretty good understanding of what's

kgdb and console output

2003-03-20 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:05:18PM +, Ibon Gotxi Garcia wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 17:25, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:49:50AM +, Ibon Gotxi Garcia wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > INIT: INIT: NIT: IT: T: : version 2.78 bootingersion 2.78 bootingrsion > > > 2.78 bootingsio

ppcboot

2003-03-20 Thread Pascal
HI, I'm working on a motorola MPc8xx. i would like to know if it's possible to run ppcboot trough an another ppcboot ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/

CONFIG_SERIAL_TEXT_DEBUG causes exception

2003-03-20 Thread Gary D. Thomas
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 20:05, jwalden at digitalatlantic.com wrote: > > Thanks for the info - > > It doesn't look to me like the 4xx has a BAT - > what would I use instead? > One way would be to use a locked TLB. I'm sure there are others. > Jerry Walden > > -Original Message- > From: Ga

CONFIG_SERIAL_TEXT_DEBUG causes exception

2003-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the info - It doesn't look to me like the 4xx has a BAT - what would I use instead? Jerry Walden -Original Message- From: Gary D. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:19 PM To: Jerry Walden Cc: linuxppc embedded Subject: RE: CONFIG_SERIAL_TEXT_DE