[ELDK] eldk testing

[Derek Cameron]

Hi

Sorry, think you are getting mixed up.  The commands:

make distclean
make MPC8540ADS_config
make

Were for u-boot not for the linux kernel.

Thanks

Derek




> To: dzu at denx.de
> CC: cameron_derek at hotmail.com; eldk at lists.denx.de
> From: wd at denx.de
> Subject: Re: [ELDK] eldk testing
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:42:27 +0100
>
> In message  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 
>> 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 
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
>>
>> 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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