Re: Linux on XScale 270

[Dmitry Krivoschekov <dmitry.krivoschekov@gmail.com>]

Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
> Typing "Linux XScale 270 or 27x" brings you a lot of pages but not an 

Probably "XScale 270" is not the best word combination for this,
the exact processor name is PXA270 (formerly Intel, now Marvell).
> in depth doc/HOWTO how to compile your own kernel and make a boot 
> image for that arch. The vendor from which I get the XScale sponsored 
> has ready to use Linux images and source on his webpage, but they're 
> kinda old and dusty.
> http://www.toradex.ch/colibri_downloads/Linux/
>
> So what are the steps I've to take, to get a Linux Kernel on a XScale?

Assuming the mainline kernel already includes support for your machine,

1. get the latest stable Linux kernel
2. compile the kernel:
    make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=<your_crosscompiler_prefix> 
<your_machine_name>_defconfig
    make <kernel_image_name>

    For example, to compile the kernel for Mainstone platform
    with blob flashed, do the following:
   
    make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- mainstone_defconfig
    make zImage

3. boot the image as appropriate for your bootloader
>  
> It's obvious that I need a cross compiler for ARM, bootloader images 
> and so on, but it's the gory details I'm curios about.
>
> Links to HOWTOs, documentation highly appreciated. And probably 
> there's also a better suited maillist than LKML for this, to a 
> pointer to that (if existing) would be nice, too.
>

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Regards,
Dmitry