Todd Harless wrote:
Not on porting uclinux , but you can run full linux.Hello again, I was wondering if anyone has heard oh porting uClinux to the PowerPC cores yet? If anyone has please let me know. Thanks. Todd Look for post on new digilentinc board on 29/4/2005 in the list archive A quick cut and paste of the posts below. Alex -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Aurash, hi John, We are working with the PPC on virtex2p. You do not need Monta Vista Linux. All you need is denx eldk: http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/ELDK And the penguin ppc linux distribution: http://www.penguinppc.org/kernel/#developers (we are using the 2.4 Kernel) To get started: http://www.klingauf.de/v2p/index.phtml might be helpful. On the other hand we are also using uClinux on spartan3. It is really a question of what hardware you have and what you want to do ;-) Have Fun Jan_-------------------------------------------------------------- The PPC (ML300 board) is support in the standard kernel.org kernel since v2.6.10. --Bye, Peter Korsgaard --------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Aurash, Aurash wrote: Alex, that board is more prepared for Linux rather than uC-linux (2 x PowerPC processors) it's a waste to use uC-Linux in my opinion when the processors can run with 300Mhz and they have MMU Given the origins and objectives of this board - (hint XUP = Xilinx University Program) I think that uClinux on this thing makes as much sense, if not more, than on any other .edu oriented board. Showing students a spectrum of embedded Linux, from small soft-CPU (microblaze + uClinux) to PPC + regular linux is potentially a very valuable teaching exercise. First off, John, Yashi and others I love the work you've been doing I've
been lurking for a long time and I'm waiting for the proper opportunity
to jump in. I'm an embedded sw/firmware guy.
Many of those things are very valuable teaching and learning excercies. :)
Of course, maybe I'm just biased :) I'm also not inclined to think it reasonable for educational groups to pay the licensing fees demanded by Montavista for an open-source linux kernel distro. I noticed that Mind have an eval CD in the latest EDK package - let's hope they are more willing to work with universities than MontaVista... Properly biased :) I've been a core dev working with an open-source community that has built an entire embedded distro, from the ground up utilizing OpenEmbedded. Our build system creates 3rd-party firmware flashable images for the Linksys NSLU2 network attached storage device. The hardware is an IXP420. The wiki is at http://www.nslu2-linux.org. Another group is attempting to create OpenJTAG tool to be used for debugging. We've been sytmied with Xilinx Spartan 3 development board and our lack of FPGA experience. We need some really simple stuff, but lack the FPGA skills. Please let me know what you want as far as a PPC development cross-build environment. It propablly pretty easy for me to setup. Tommy BOK, that's enough opinion for now :P John ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/IMPACT/gsrc/hardwarelab/docs/kernel-HOWTO.html I've already used these helpful references to get a Linux kernel running on the PowerPC405 on the Digilent XUP-V2Pro board. I'm new to ucLinux but it doesn't appear to be much more complicated than the ucLinux steps. Paul--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X running on the ML300 w/PPC? Yes - it was quite a painful build process, but I got it running. Obviously MontaVista has, too. Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Alex Gibson <alxx@tpg.com.au> wrote: That all looks pretty good. Thanks for the links. Any of you , have got X running ? Alex |