AW: [ixp1200] SDK 2.0, IXA and Kernel on eval board?

[James Croall]

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 06:01, benz at mephisto.inf.tu-dresden.de wrote:
> Of course it is possible to get the Linux version provided with SDK 2
> running on the evaluation board. But it is a bit tricky because the
> documentation is a bit week concerning board customization (e.g. minimum
> memory requirements ...) and other "issues" (e.g. chip bugs). 
> 
> We have done that and it works for us. There are certainly limitations
> in that you can not run SDK 2 apps requiring C0 silicon or apps
> requiring more than 1K control memory storage. You will also have to
> reduce the table sizes due to memory limitations in some cases. But for
> a development system this is often tolerable. 

Hi!

I wonder if you could give me any insight into what you had to do to
boot Linux on the B0 board? I tried building my own from the
intel-supplied sources, with no luck. The kernel available from the
netwinder guys doesn't seem to support the necessary intel calls.

Thanks!

- James