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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: 2.6.19 on TS7400 w/64mb ram
From: "raaku12" <>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:04:11 -0000
Where did you find the Cirrus 1.0.7??





--- In  "Breton M. Saunders"
<> wrote:
>
>  > thanks for the post, there are a lot of people interested in putting
>  > the 2.6 kernel into the ts7400 ;-)
>  >
>  > For which kernel release does your config/patch work? The official
>  > vanilla kernel or an already patched one? Where did you take it?
>  >
>  > Furthermore, I found lots of example on how to replace the kernel
>  > using redboot for the 72xx and 73xx boards, but not for the 7400.
>  > What's the easiest way for replacing the kernel for the ts7400?
>  >
>  > Thanks a lot
>  > Bye
>  > Andrea
> 
> Hi Andrea,
> 
>   Good questions.
> 
>   I used vanilla 2.6.19, and applied the patches with the following 
> command run in the linux-2.6.19 directory:
>     zcat patch-XXX.gz | patch -p1
> 
> I should point out that the 2.6.19 build is far from complete. 
There is 
> no support for the TS specific hardware (SD card, CPLD UART) or for the 
> non-redboot partition table used on the NAND flash.
> 
>   I used TS's bootloader to load the kernel, and the ramdisk image from 
> Cirrus' linux version 1.0.7.  I run a script from the TS bootstrap
image 
> that looks like this:
> 
> rm -rf /lib
> mkdir /mnt/arm
> ln -s /mnt/arm /lib
> mount 192.168.0.5:/home/arm /mnt/arm
> insmod /bootloader.o
> ./bootload -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 root=/dev/ram" -r 
> /mnt/arm/ramdisk.gz /mnt/arm/zImage
> 
> I remove /lib, nfs mount /mnt/arm (which contains all /lib entries 
> needed to run bootloader), then nfs load ramdisk and zImage.
> 
>   Hope this helps.
> 
>     -Brett
>



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