[RFC] consolidated libdt proposal

2006-08-10 Thread Milton Miller
On Aug 10, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Mark A. Greer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:51:30AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote: >> On Tue Aug 8 2006 01:04:08 PM CDT, Mark A. Greer wrote: >>> If we're going to allow cmdline editing in the bootwrapper, we would >>> need to extend the size of a property. ... >> W

Gianfar eth driver on 8540 ppc - for 2.4 and 2.6 : different outputs

2006-08-10 Thread Kumar Gala
On Aug 10, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Prashant Yendigeri wrote: > > Hi, > > The gianfar driver of 2.6.12 and 2.4.20 give different outputs on > the same PPC 8540 board. > > What could be the reason ? > > Output on 2.4.20 : > /root # ifconfig eth0 172.28.8.254 up > eth0: PHY is Marvell 88E1011S (1410c62)

Realtime preemption patch on PPC

2006-08-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 16:04 -0700, Ben Weintraub wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm wondering if anyone has had success getting Ingo Molnar's realtime > preemption patch (the one here: > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ ) working on the ppc > arch. > This is probably a better question for

PCI driver on EB8347

2006-08-10 Thread rajan rai
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Which is better for Wireless Network Support, 2.6 or 2.4?

2006-08-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 13:22 -0400, wei.li4 at elf.mcgill.ca wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working on wireless data application via MPC875 host USB, is there > any difference to use Linux 2.6.x or Linux 2.4.x? Is it Linux 2.6 more > like RTOS? Thanks. > Yes, absolutely. Recent Linux 2.6 kernels (s

how to generate kernel.img

2006-08-10 Thread Li Yang-r58472
I don't think "kernel.img" is a standard name for any kind of images. Maybe you have to look into the content to find out which kind of image it is. Best Regards, Leo > -Original Message- > From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces+leoli=freescale.com at ozlabs.org > [mailto:linuxppc-embedded-bounce

how to generate kernel.img

2006-08-10 Thread tony
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Debugging with no serial port

2006-08-10 Thread Ben Warren
Martin, On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 13:12 -0700, Martin, Tim wrote: > > I tried this as well and have the same GDB synchronization problem e.g. > > break log_stuff > commands >silent >if (variable_logging_enabled) > printf "(%d,%d)\n",stuff1_variable,stuff2_variable >end >

Gianfar eth driver on 8540 ppc - for 2.4 and 2.6 : different outputs

2006-08-10 Thread Prashant Yendigeri
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Realtime preemption patch on PPC

2006-08-10 Thread Ben Weintraub
Howdy, I'm wondering if anyone has had success getting Ingo Molnar's realtime preemption patch (the one here: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ ) working on the ppc arch. I'm working with patch-2.6.17-rt8 (the latest) and linux-2.6.17. The realtime-preempt patch seems to include

Debugging with no serial port

2006-08-10 Thread Ben Warren
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Debugging with no serial port

2006-08-10 Thread Brian Waite
On Thursday 10 August 2006 15:00, Martin, Tim wrote: > >> Second question would be - is there an easier way to accomplish what > >> I'm trying to do, which is basically emulate a serial port with GDB. > > > > Use NetConsole or remotey log it with syslog... > > I guess I wasn't clear in the problem

kernel panic: BUG in cascade at kernel/timer.c

2006-08-10 Thread Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
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Compatibility Problem between linux-2.4.25 and RedBoot

2006-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, Since my evaluation board based on MPC875 is pre-installed RedBoot Loader and Linux with this kit can be loaded and execute, but I want to try public powerpc linux, which can be loaded, but not execute. Dose any one know how to change it so that it is compatible with RedBoot? I checked

Which is better for Wireless Network Support, 2.6 or 2.4?

2006-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, I am working on wireless data application via MPC875 host USB, is there any difference to use Linux 2.6.x or Linux 2.4.x? Is it Linux 2.6 more like RTOS? Thanks. Wei

Debugging with no serial port

2006-08-10 Thread Martin, Tim
Ben, > How about something a bit simpler like running gdb within a 'script' context, > which will log your session to a file. Get gdb to print the variables to the screen > (using 'print' or whatever), wrap your data with easily searchable characters > (eg. ***data1 data2 data3***), then f

regarding pci vga card output with powerpc

2006-08-10 Thread sudheer
i need to use fb0, to send the serial data to frame buffer ? > >> login:rrtt >> Password: Password: >> login on `ttyS0'ogin on `ttyS0'login[83]: root >> >> ~ # ~ # llss >> ~ # ~ # iiffccoonnffiigg >> >> And whatever i enter on the minicom also gets print on the vga monitor >> but only once. >> When i comment the if directive, On the vga monitor i could see only >> upto login prompt. >> >> I don't know why the printk statement i added in the serial driver >> prints on the vga monitor. >> >> As said by shkatikannan, i am going through the vga driver to copy to >> the frambuffer. But yet couldn't get it exactly in the code where to copy. >> >> Please tell me if i am in the wrong path. >> >> Thanks & Regards >> Sudheer >> >> -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20060810/29f4729e/attachment.htm

Debugging with no serial port

2006-08-10 Thread Martin, Tim
>> Second question would be - is there an easier way to accomplish what >> I'm trying to do, which is basically emulate a serial port with GDB. > > Use NetConsole or remotey log it with syslog... > I guess I wasn't clear in the problem statement - this target doesn't have a serial port, an e

[RFC] consolidated libdt proposal

2006-08-10 Thread Mark A. Greer
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:51:30AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote: > On Tue Aug 8 2006 01:04:08 PM CDT, Mark A. Greer wrote: > > If we're going to allow cmdline editing in the bootwrapper, we would > > need to extend the size of a property. We've never really talked about > > cmdline editing in the p

[RFC] consolidated libdt proposal

2006-08-10 Thread Milton Miller
On Tue Aug 8 2006 01:04:08 PM CDT, Mark A. Greer wrote: > If we're going to allow cmdline editing in the bootwrapper, we would > need to extend the size of a property. We've never really talked about > cmdline editing in the powerpc branch but I assume that its a good > thing(tm). I know I would

regarding pci vga card output with powerpc

2006-08-10 Thread sudheer
irective, On the vga monitor i could see only upto login prompt. I don't know why the printk statement i added in the serial driver prints on the vga monitor. As said by shkatikannan, i am going through the vga driver to copy to the frambuffer. But yet couldn't get it exactly in the code where to copy. Please tell me if i am in the wrong path. Thanks & Regards Sudheer > -- > Regards > Andrey > > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20060810/06da7bd7/attachment.htm

Debugging with no serial port

2006-08-10 Thread Frank
--- "Martin, Tim" wrote: > This may be more of a question for GDB folks...but I'll post > it here > because it relates to embedded systems as well. > > I'm trying to validate some signal processing software on an > embedded > Virtex4 PowerPC 405. Basically, the validation consists of > calli

Debugging with no serial port

2006-08-10 Thread Martin, Tim
n before the cont statement? Second question would be - is there an easier way to accomplish what I'm trying to do, which is basically emulate a serial port with GDB. Tim -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20060810/6fc37e8c/attachment.htm

regarding pci vga card output with powerpc

2006-08-10 Thread Andrey Volkov
sudheer wrote: > Andrey Volkov wrote: >> urwithsudheer wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> I am working with a pci based vga card. I have connected the vga card >>> next to the pci slot of my target processor on the baseboard. >>> I have connected a monitor to the vga card. >>> When i boot linux from minico

U-boot on ML403

2006-08-10 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Frank, I know you are using U-boot on ML403 now. So can you say something about how to configure U-boot as ML403 board? I noticed that in U-boot 1.1.4, there is only ML300 supported. So if I want to configure the board as ML403 and some other customed options(e.g. no EEPROM), what shall I d

SystemAce Driver.

2006-08-10 Thread sudheer
Hi Frank D Lombardo Thanks for the reply. I have done the same and got the support files for system ace. Thanks & Regards Sudheer Frank D Lombardo wrote: > sudheer wrote: >> Hello Ameet Patil >> >> I am looking for linux kernel source 2.6.16 with system ace >> controller support. I download

regarding pci vga card output with powerpc

2006-08-10 Thread Andrey Volkov
urwithsudheer wrote: > Hello All, > I am working with a pci based vga card. I have connected the vga card > next to the pci slot of my target processor on the baseboard. > I have connected a monitor to the vga card. > When i boot linux from minicom, i could see all the kernel log messages > on b