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| 15:09.53 | dandre | hello, |
| 15:10.59 | dandre | I have an amcc powerpc ppc440ep based embedded system. Is there a debian distro suitable for it? |
| 15:48.29 | Bor_Ed | iirc, should work ok |
| 15:58.29 | dandre | ok but is there some install tip? |
| 15:58.48 | Bor_Ed | hook up serial cable and do tftp boot |
| 15:58.52 | dandre | any tutorial Bor_Ed ? |
| 15:58.58 | Bor_Ed | usually works best with embeddable gear |
| 15:59.19 | Bor_Ed | check debian.org netboot install guide |
| 16:00.06 | dandre | ok but what must I have in order to do some tests? |
| 16:00.41 | Bor_Ed | rj45 cable and nullmodem rs232 cable |
| 16:00.55 | Bor_Ed | rj45 as crossover if you can't use hub/switch in between |
| 16:04.34 | dandre | Ok I have plugged my serial cable and my rj45 |
| 16:04.51 | Bor_Ed | serial port setting should be 115200,8,n,1 |
| 16:05.01 | dandre | I am able to log into using the serial connection |
| 16:05.10 | dandre | thats ok |
| 16:05.25 | Bor_Ed | and depending on if the firmware is u-boot or redboot, it can do network boot and so on |
| 16:05.46 | dandre | it is u-boot |
| 16:06.02 | Bor_Ed | grmbl... it requires local medium to boot |
| 16:06.32 | Bor_Ed | usb/sd/cf should do if you have slot(s) in the board |
| 16:06.39 | dandre | what do you mean? |
| 16:06.49 | Bor_Ed | u-boot can't do network boot |
| 16:07.27 | dandre | yes I have one usb slot and one sd slot |
| 16:07.39 | Bor_Ed | got any sd cards handy? |
| 16:07.55 | Bor_Ed | hmm, and check from the board manual if it can boot from there |
| 16:08.24 | dandre | My targetted system is http://www.pikatechnologies.com/english/View.asp?x=652 |
| 16:09.16 | Bor_Ed | http://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/sam.php read on... it's more or less the same board |
| 16:10.02 | Bor_Ed | my link has the install images and kernel patches too |
| 16:13.27 | dandre | I only have 128M of RAM and 256 Flash, does it matter? |
| 16:15.18 | Bor_Ed | that's more than enough for debian install... flash is a bit on low side though but I think you can install to SD card too |
| 16:16.39 | dandre | ok |
| 16:35.56 | Bor_Ed | looks like the included firmware is pretty hardware specific with dsp and so on functionalities |
| 16:39.16 | dandre | yes |
| 16:41.35 | dandre | I am asking weather they give access to sourcecode for there drivers |
| 16:42.53 | Bor_Ed | drivers are binary only apparently (http://outgoingftp.pikatech.com/appliance/2.0/PADS_2.0.1.3.tgz) but they should work in debian too as long as the kernel is the same |
| 16:53.14 | dandre | must I have a ppc development system to build ppc debian packages or may I cross compile them? |
| 16:53.28 | Bor_Ed | you can cross compile too |
| 16:54.20 | dandre | ok thats fine :-) |
| 16:54.26 | Bor_Ed | yup |
| 17:01.41 | dandre | in u-boot I have this: |
| 17:01.42 | dandre | tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol |
| 17:02.57 | Bor_Ed | then you can use it... which is nice on dev stage... compile kernel with nfs root and boot from tftp |
| 17:03.13 | dandre | I have this too: |
| 17:03.14 | dandre | version |
| 17:03.14 | dandre | U-Boot 1.3.0-65 (Mar 3 2009 - 10:27:25) |
| 17:03.43 | dandre | and I have read that netboot required u-boot 1.3.1 or higher |
| 17:03.45 | Bor_Ed | need to grab the latest sources to see if it'd do the trick on broadcom (mips) hardware too |
| 17:19.01 | dandre | Ok thanks for your help Bor_Ed |
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