[ELDK] eldk testing

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <m2k5mhw63p.fsf at ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying out the new version of the ELDK on an MPC8540
> > processor and have found a few things.  I build the kernel
> > successfully using the mpc8540_ads_defconfig default config file in
> > the arch/ppc/configs folder.  When this kernel starts up, there is a
> > large pause (1 - 2 minutes) after the text "Starting system logger:".
> > After a couple of minutes the OK text appears and it carries on as
> > normal.
> 
> Hm, yes, we have seen such a phenomenon.  It was triggered by the fact
> that the arch/ppc kernel erroneously tried to use vdso support not
> supported in arch/ppc to handle gettimeofday.  The fix should be this
> commit
> 
> commit dc9b43d0f706852fc4abce5bf28958db41524328
> Author: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Date:   Wed Oct 10 08:36:18 2007 +1000
> 
>     [POWERPC] Disable vDSO support for ARCH=ppc where it's not
>     implemented
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> 
> I'll check later why this is not in the ELDK linux tree.

The current beta (2007-11-27 build) is based on a 2.6.22 kernel tree;
the commit above came later.

This will be fixed in the next beta / final release.

> > make distclean
> > make MPC8540ADS_config
> > make

I don't think these were the *exact* commands.

The target name for the default configuration is
"mpc8540_ads_defconfig".

I just verified that the current DENX-v2.6.23-stable branch builds
fine for this board, both for ARCH=ppc and for ARCH=powerpc
configurations.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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