Hello. I'm in for a porting Linux on board hosting System-on-Chip IC made by LG - LGMM3001, based on ARM926EJ-S, running at 216MHz. Only uCos has been ported on the board so far (not by me). This is my first experience of Linux porting, though I wrote a few not very complex drivers a couple of years ago for 2.4.x kernel and worked mainly on application layer since then. I'm now reading "Embedded Linux System Design and Development" by P. Raghavan and Sriram Neelakandan and a few articles I found on Web, but anyway there are lots of questions arose. Right now I want to clear a few major ones: - what kernel version to choose. I understand it depends on system requirements and hardware specs, and I think 2.6.x branch should be given a preference, as it supports a lot more hardware then 2.4 and community provides better support as well :) Question is what version of 2.6.x family to choose, is there a strict criterion to choose ? - what bootloader can you recommend to choose for porting on the board? There are U-boot, Redboot and ARMboot as the most common and portable. I briefly check the Web Links and found that only U-Boot supports ARM9, am I right? - I mentioned above about uCos - is it reasonable trying to port uCos device drivers on to the Linux platform, or drivers should be rewritten from scratch, as uCos and Linux architectures I guess are quite different ? Thanks in advance and looking forward to getting answers to my queries! -- Roman Mashak -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
