[U-Boot-Users] What is the most simple ppc405gp board

Stefan Roese stefan.roese at esd-electronics.com
Fri Sep 10 17:34:55 CEST 2004


Hi Tadas,

> I have most simple ppc405gp board and need to port 
> bootloader, and linux to
> it.
> there is no aditional hardware just integrated 8mb ram cpu, 
> ethernet, and
> one pci slot.
> so I should remove everything from any other board code to port it.

Yes!

> > > Or more excactly, which board DO NOT have real time clock and
> > > preferably no
> > > fpga.
> > > and if the ram is integrated with no upgrade support it
> > > would be perfect.
> > >
> > > I want to use its code as referense.
> > > if the board have something more then it is hard to remove.
> >
> > Hmmm. I find it pretty easy to remove something from U-Boot. I would
> > suggest to start with the CPCI4052 and remove all stuff you 
> don't need
> > (FPGA, RTC, etc.).
> 
> FPGA , RTC is easy to remove from u-boot, but I dont know how 
> remove them
> from linux.
> and RTC seems to be vital part to run linux. (I found 
> somewhere that it is
> nesecary to calculate bogomips)
> so probably some special driver is nesecary.

No, not needed at all! Just configure your kernel without RTC!

Best regards,
Stefan





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