-----Original Message----- From: Rizvan [mailto:rizzkhan@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:13 AM To: Ajay Singh (ajaysi) Subject: Re: kernel porting query On 2/16/07, Ajay Singh (ajaysi) <ajaysi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > <snip> > 1) Can any one please shed some light on precisely and exactly what > are differences in different boards for which we need to port linux? > > The differences depends on the boards ... Mostly if they belong to the > same family the differences could be mainly in the peripherials ... > Interrupt mappings... Serial interface ... Memory sizes (if differnet > boards have different memory sizes) ... Sometimes some devices may be > moved to some other locations in the memory map (Look at memory map of > your SoC on your board). > > 2) Also, I would appreciate if you could point out code portions / > source files that need to be changed in the process of porting Linux? > > Look in linux-2.6.20\arch\mips\mips-boards for help on porting to your > board. You can add directory specific to your board here. > I think you can start from xxx_setup.c file in the above directory. > Hi Ajay, This is very good information, I have some issue with my board during porting. All things are same bet old and new board except clock frequency, still my reboot (warm reset) is not working ? ANy idea ? Ajay> Are you calling mips_reboot_setup() in your plat_mem_setup()? You may have to modify/add code to mips_reboot_setup() specific to your board. Is this due to boot stramp or NAND Flash mapped to other address ? Ajay> I don't think that can be the issue. Ajay> Also please mail to the list so that others can also see your queries and suggest better answers. Ajay. Thanks Rizvan > Good luck. > Ajay. > > TIA, > > Rick > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe > kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at > http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe > kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at > http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
