Hello, 2009-11-25 15:36 keltezéssel, Richard (MQ) írta:
We use a lot of PPC based embedded controllers for work (variously running OS-9 or VxWorks) and I've long entertained plans to get it onto one of them, this would be some way from trivial though as there's neither a CD nor USB! This project would be with a colleague who also has a G3 iMac as well as coding skills.
As long as Linux boots on the board in any form, it should not be difficult. My first mpc5121e devel board only had serial port and ethernet functional, and after a few days work, openSUSE booted on it :-) Basically there are two possibilities: - if the current SuSE kernel can't be patched to boot on the board, then one can compile everything in a monster monolithic kernel to support installation and booting. This approach worked with both openSUSE and Debian/Ubuntu on the mpc5121e and other boards. - if the current SuSE kernel can be configured and/or patched to boot on a given board, then it is more elegant to use SuSE kernel sources with default config + additional hw support (I used mkinstallinitrd or something similar, I can't recall any more). This is what I used for the mpc8610 developer system Of course, one can skip creating an installer, when there is an installed PPC system available. Just make a copy to NFS and boot a kernel from TFTP. Possibilites are endless :-) Once factory is synced out again and I got a little time, I try to port it to my mpc8610 (G4 on lots of steroids :-) ) system, as that is my fastest PPC machine at the moment. Bye, CzP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org