On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Christopher Beley cbeley@wisc.edu wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for getting back to me (sorry for the late response, I've had a lot going on). To be honest though, a lot of this is a little over my head. I was looking at some of your old patches and taking a look at the source for the total5200, which I think is pretty similar to the media5200, but am not totally sure how to go about it all. Could you maybe suggest some reading sources or tips on how to go about this? I've been looking at some documentation which describes what and where everything is, but I'm not really sure where to go from there. I'll probally have to do a fair amount of reading either way for this.
Look at an existing MPC5200 u-boot board port (like the phytec pcm030) and duplicate it. It also helps to look at the original media5200 u-boot patches that Freescale shipped on the software CD-ROM.
I never tried bringing the kernel down to 1MB, but i'm not sure what to do about the dts file either way.
You really need to update u-boot I think. Getting the kernel down below 1MB and still be useful will be hard. I would do it for you, it's not really all that hard, but I don't really have any time at the moment.
P.S. You know though, from the little I can find about the Media5200, I'm beginning to think it was never very popular.
It really wasn't. I've got one, and you're the only person I know outside of Freescale who has another.
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