John www.mikrotik.com
At 01:59 AM 4/17/2005, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message <42612249.1fb.7a40.2093672349@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > I´d just bought Routerboard532 ( > http://www.routerboard.com/rb500.html ) and I want to port > linux to this board. The vendor has just an linux image on > the web site.
This is not correct. If you just scroll down the page you listed yoursself, then you should easily find the section titled "RouterBOARD 500 GNU/Linux support files" which includes a link to "Patch for Linux 2.4.29 kernel".
> Anyone could help me we some info or "HOWTO" ?
Download the patch, download the corresponding kernel source tree, apply patch, copy "config.mipsel" to ".config" to get a default configuration, build the kernel, download it, run it.
So far I haven't been able to find out how to pass kernel arguments with their boot loader, so you may have to hack rc32434/rb500/prom.c
I used the mips_4KCle packages of the ELDK to build the kernel and to provide a root filesystem over NFS - this worked fine. There are some problems (like not being able to switch the CPU clock and NAND flash support not working at all), but it boots and runs.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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