Subject: Re: compiling PPC kernel on i386
From: Andrew Gaffney (andrew_gaffney@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 13:54:24 MST
my 6100 is the opposite. I can only get MkLinux booter
to load the Mach Kernel. BootX gives me colored snow
when i try to load the vmlinux that comes with YDL 2.1
install
--- Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> No, that is untrue. I just follow the instructions
> there, and it works
> fine on my powerbook 5300. As I have mentioned
> before, I can't seem to
> make my 6100 or 7100 work with MkLinux boot loader,
> so I use BootX with
> the uncompressed vmlinux on those machines. I have
> no idea why this
> could be so, but it is. :(
>
> Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
> > i followed those steps. i seem to remember reading
> > that mklinux can't use compressed kernel images.
> > doesn't make zImage gzip the kernel? should i do
> make
> > vmlinux?
> >
> > --- Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>Shouldn't be. You did
> >>make zImage
> >>instead of
> >>make
> >>right? And you are using the
> arch/ppc/appleboot/Mach
> >>Kernel? The steps I
> >>posted at
> >>
> >>
> >
>
http://nubus.tuxppc.org/plain_page.php?caller=powermaclinux.php3+record=84
> >
> >>work for me cross-compiling just fine.
> >>
> >>Bo
> >>
> >>Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>i successfully built a kernel but the mklinux
> >>>
> >>booter
> >>
> >>>just hung trying to boot it. is a compiled-in
> >>>
> >>ramdisk
> >>
> >>>image required even if you don't use it?
> >>>
> >>>--- Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>See
> >>>>
> >>http://penguinppc.org/embedded/cross-compiling/
> >>
> >>>>This is how I build for my 6100 and 7100, and it
> >>>>works great.
> >>>>
> >>>>Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>i want to compile a new kernel to be used on my
> >>>>>PowerMac 6100 with YDL 2.1. since i don't have
> it
> >>>>>working right yet, all i have is my Athlon 750
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>linux
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>box. does gcc have support for ppc? i tricked
> the
> >>>>>kernel menuconfig into thinking it was
> >>>>>
> >>configuring
> >>
> >>>>for
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>a ppc. but how do i get gcc to put out ppc
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>instructions?
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
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