Good morning. I have a couple of questions. After struggling with an initrd boot for a few days, I said "heck with it" and just made /dev/hda2 my root device. Given that the kernel is in flash, and the devices I need are compiled in (and I don't have module support), is there any reason to mess around with an initrd-style boot, given that we absolutely know what the hardware config is going to be? It works like a charm with the default DENX Sys-V init, from the ppc-82xx tree, by the way, though I will have to prune some services.
The other question regards the real time clock on the MPC5200. Unless I am seriously overlooking something, this does not appear to be implemented, yet, yes? The register structure doesn't look too arcane. Is anybody working on this? I am tempted, but nobody wants to roll in code from a rank novice. The project we're working on needs a self-contained clock. I notice that u-boot provides rtc services, but isn't that more properly a kernel function? I'm a little fuzzy on the dividing line.
Thanks! Victor Wren