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PPCBoot 2.0.0

The Halloween Release
Fri Nov 1 00:01:24 MET 2002
This release is special:

It is the last, ultimate, final release of PPCBoot!

The PPCBoot project will not be continued any more. But: Don't Panic!

Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!

Over time, the name PPCBoot has become inappropriate: we don't exclusively support PowerPC CPUs. There is also support for a couple of ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM and XScale based board. Ports for ColdFire and even x86 are in the planning or already under way. Thus it's time to acknowledge that this project has become a universal bootloader - we will continue development under the new flag
"Das U-Boot" - the Universal Boot Loader
The new project is again hosted at SourceForge, you can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

Now for the details of this release:
It's mostly a bug-fix release, containing mostly optimizations and fixes for smaller problems.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.2.1 Mon Oct 25 14:51:00 MEST 2002
Mostly a bug fix release
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.2.0 Sun Sep 29 17:50:51 MEST 2002
Major changes:
ARMBoot source tree merged back into common tree. PPCBoot now includes support for ARM7, ARM9 and StrongARM processors.
Support for XScale, ColdFire, ... to be added
New boards: 440GP Ebony, BAB7xx, BCM56xx, CPCI-440, ELPPC, EVB-64260-750CX, GEN860T, PN62, R360MPI, UTX8245, dnp1110, ep7312, impa7, lart, shannon, smdk2400, smdk2410, trab ...
Simultaneous support for several ethernet interfaces (like SCC and FEC on MPC860T, or redundand network cards on other systems)
Enhanced PCI support
Extensive Power On Self Test capabilities (for MPC8xx)
Support for modem dial-in with password authorization
Support to store environment variables in redundand flash sectors (improved reliability)
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.1.6 Fri Jun 21 23:35:07 MEST 2002
LOTS of new things:
New boards: SCM, PCI405, OXC, CPU86, TTTech, ...
Grand Unifying I2C Interface Patch
Major driver cleanup (especially PCI); remove redundand code
MANY fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.1.5 Fri Mar 8 01:32:59 MET 2002
LOTS of new things:
New boards: ORSG, ppmc8260, PCIPPC6, IAD210, EP8260, Sandpoint_8245, RPXClassic
Support for multiple ethernet interfaces (with automatic selection)
JFFS2 filesystem support (read only)
Improved Disk On Chip support
MANY fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.1.4 Sat Jan 19 12:31:43 MET 2002
Support for M-Systems Disk-On-Chip
Support for QNX images
HUSH shell fixed (variable handling)
Some new boards supported
Sandpoint8240 now really working
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.1.3 Fri Dec 28 18:27:08 MET 2001
Unified support for 7xx and 74xx CPUs
many new boards supported
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.1.2 Fri Dec 7 02:33:51 MET 2001
Support for 7xx CPUs
Improved Support for 824x CPUs
HUSH Shell available as command line interpreter, including for / while / until loops, if / then / fi, etc.
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.1.1 Mon Nov 19 17:32:19 MET 2001
Boot Support for VxWorks images
misc fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.1.0 Mon Nov 5 19:16:14 MET 2001
LCD driver for MPC823 CPUs
Real Shell available as command interpreter ("hush" from BusyBox)
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.0.6 Wed Oct 17 22:16:13 MEST 2001
Cleanup for MPC8240 and IBM40x CPUs, which now use the data cache to allocate memory for initial data and stack.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.0.5 Tue Sep 11 22:49:39 MEST 2001
Support for some new boards (Mousse, AMX860, PM826, TQM8260)
All clocks in Hz now!!! See announcement!!!
many fixes / extensions
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.0.4 Sun Aug 5 17:43:18 CEST 2001
Support for some new boards (NX823, DASA_SIM, CCM)
new vendor directories used for Siemens boards
misc. fixes / extensions
added board database tools
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.0.3 Thu Jul 19 18:35:47 MEST 2001
Support for some new features, for instance:
configurable "preboot" command;
new directory layout for better support of vendors with several boards, etc.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.0.2 Thu Jul 5 23:05:58 MEST 2001
Support for lots of new features:
SCSI, Floppy Disk, CD-ROM, ISO Partition, MC146818 RTC, Chips & Technologies 69000 Video Chip, Standard (PC-Style) Keyboard, protected RAM area, ...
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.0.1 Sun Jun 24 21:50:37 MEST 2001
SPI driver, support for SPI EEPROM and extended BedBug support
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 1.0.0 Fri Jun 15 02:00:54 MEST 2001
PPCBoot now supports 74xx CPUs and a couple of new boards.
Also, the BedBug debugger has been integrated into PPCBoot.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 0.9.3 Wed May 30 17:47:30 MEST 2001
PPCBoot now supports DHCP and a couple of new boards.
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 0.9.2 Tue May 1 18:22:29 MEST 2001
PPCBoot now supports NetBSD both as host (build PPCBoot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 0.9.1 Sat Apr 28 21:45:33 MEST 2001
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 0.9.0 Sun Apr 15 22:51:58 MEST 2001
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

Mailing List update Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:05:44 +0100
The whole mailling list archive moved to www.geocrawler.com so a update of the mailing list links was required. Sorry for all the people tried to access the archive and could not find any e-mails!
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot 0.8.3 Thu Mar 8 01:35:46 MET 2001
Please see the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users. Check the download for the latest tarball.
-- Wolfgang Denk

PPCBoot 0.7.1 releasedSun, 7 Jan 2001 18:52:43 +0100
Read the announcement on the mailing-list ppcboot-users or download simply the tarball or use CVS if you can. The changelog since last release can be found within the announcement.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot on Brave-GNU-WorldSat, 2 Dec 2000 16:14:01 +0100
Georg C. F. Greve wrote in the Issue #21 of Brave-GNU-World a short article about the Embedded PowerPC Linux Boot Project.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot on SiliconPenguin.comSat, 2 Dec 2000 16:14:01 +0100
Searching in the category Software/BIOS_and_Boot_Code on http://siliconpenguin.com/ you will get today also a link to http://ppcboot.sourceforge.net/ as result too.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot 0.6.4 releasedFri, 1 Dec 2000 00:20:54 +0100
Wolfgang announce the avaibility of version 0.6.4 today. Read this e-mail for a changelog. To get the sources use the CVS tag PPCBOOT_0_6_4 or use the tarball from the download section.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot 0.5.3 releasedSun, 15 Oct 2000 11:00:11 +0200
To get the latest sources use the CVS tag PPCBOOT_0_5_3 or use the tarball from the download section. The announcement with a ChangeLog can be found here.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot 0.5.2 releasedThu, 12 Oct 2000 20:35:23 +0200
One day later after the release of 0.5.1 where a new tag set, PPCBOOT_0_5_2. Feel free and check out the latest sources or download the tarball. Do not forget to report bugs or patches! The announcement from Wolfgang Denk can be found here.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot 0.5.1 releasedTue, 10 Oct 2000 22:46:48 +0200
Check the latest sources from our download section and read the announcement for a short overview over the latest changes. You can also stay tuned using CVS :) Use PPCBOOT_0_5_1 as tag while update or check-out.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot 0.5.0 available for downloadTue, 3 Oct 2000 06:11:04 +0200
Wolfgang Denk announced a new tarball of PPCBOOT at version 0.5.0 which can be downloaded via FTP or CVS. A list of all changes can be found in the CVS repository.
-- Raphael Bossek

PPCBoot at Linux-Directory.comTue, 3 Oct 2000 06:11:04 +0200
Today PPCBOOT where added into the Hardware:Embedded section at Linux-Directory.com is a link collection for Linux related topics.
-- Raphael Bossek

New release 0.4.4-pre1 availableTue, 22 Aug 2000 01:16:31 +0200
New tarball version 0.4.4-pre1 from Wolfgang Denk available for FTP and CVS download. The announcement can be found here.
-- Raphael Bossek

New release 0.4.2 available for downloadFri, 4 Aug 2000 18:23:02 +0200
Wolfgang Denk announce today a new release of ppcboot 0.4.2 availiable as tarball and from CVS. Read Wolfgang's announcement here.
-- Raphael Bossek

First public anouncementThu, 27 Jul 2000 17:03:02 +0200
At www.linuxdevices.com you can read the official announcement of the Embedded PowerPC Linux Boot Project.
-- Raphael Bossek

Linux 2.4.0-test5 for Embedded PowerPC is working!Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:03:02 +0200
Yes it's true, Wolfgang Denk get it working. For more than two days his TQM8xxL boards are compiling non-stop the Linux kernel sources via NFS without any crashes! It takes 03:30 hours before a Linux kernel is compiled using this configuration. I can imagine that the speed improves using local IDE harddrives but it is a nice test for the TCP/IP stability :)
If you are interested in hardware Wolfgang is using, take a look here. A another overview about Embedded PowerPC hardware can be found here.
-- Raphael Bossek

Sponsors added!Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:40:31 +0200
New SPONSORS sections opened and some website updates done based on the PPCBOOT documentation written by Wolfang Denk.
-- Raphael Bossek

Wolfgang Denk released PPCBoot 0.4.1Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:02:00 +0200
Wolfgang Denk done great work on the old 8xxROM sources and released the first PPCBoot sources. Many things changed since the release of 8xxROM 0.3.0. Take a look in the download section.
-- Raphael Bossek

Big homepage updateSat, 10 Jun 2000 01:10:03 +0200
After a long absence this site where updated including CVS, MAILING-LIST working.
-- Raphael Bossek

Project startMon, 24 Apr 2000 14:30:11 +0200
Project start at SourceForge. Moved the project maintains from http://www.s4l.de/ to SourceForge for a faster open source development.
-- Raphael Bossek

 
 

 
 
up SUPPORTWed, 26 Jul 2000 22:40:31 +0200

  • A running PPCBOOT with command overview
    ppcboot 0.9.0 (Apr 15 2001 - 20:28:15)
    
    Initializing...
      CPU:   PPC823EZTnnB2 at 50 MHz: 16 kB I-Cache 8 kB D-Cache
      Board: TQM823LDBBA3.200
      DRAM:  16 MB
      FLASH:  8 MB
      PCMCIA: 5.0V card found: ARGOSY PnPIDE D5
      Bus 0: OK  
        Device 0: Model: IBM-DSOA-20810  Serial #: 1R08RLJ463  Capacity: 775.2 MB = 0.8 GB
      In:    serial
      Out:   serial
      Err:   serial
    
    Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
    => help
    go      - start application at address 'addr'
    run     - run commands in an environment variable
    bootm   - boot application image from memory
    bootp   - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
    tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
                   and env variables ipaddr and serverip
    rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
    diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd   - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
    loads   - load S-Record file over serial line
    loadb   - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
    md      - memory display
    mm      - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
    nm      - memory modify (constant address)
    mw      - memory write (fill)
    cp      - memory copy
    cmp     - memory compare
    crc32   - checksum calculation
    base    - print or set address offset
    printenv- print environment variables
    setenv  - set environment variables
    saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
    protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
    erase   - erase FLASH memory
    flinfo  - print FLASH memory information
    bdinfo  - print Board Info structure
    iminfo  - print header information for application image
    coninfo - print console devices and informations
    ide     - IDE sub-system
    date    - get/set date & time
    loop    - infinite loop on address range
    mtest   - simple RAM test
    icache  - enable or disable instruction cache
    dcache  - enable or disable data cache
    reset   - Perform RESET of the CPU
    echo    - echo args to console
    version - print monitor version
    help    - print online help
    ?       - alias for 'help'
    
    
    => loads
    ## Ready for S-Record download ...
    ~>hello_world.srec
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
     29
    [file transfer complete]
    [connected]
    ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
    
    => go 40004 This is just a test.
    ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
    Hello World
    argc = 6
    argv[0] = "40004"
    argv[1] = "This"
    argv[2] = "is"
    argv[3] = "just"
    argv[4] = "a"
    argv[5] = "test."
    argv[6] = "<NULL>"
    Hit any key to exit ... 
    
    ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
    
    => flinfo
    
    Bank # 1: AMD AM29LV160B (16 Mbit, bottom boot sect)
      Size: 4 MB in 35 Sectors
      Sector Start Addresses:
        40000000 (RO) 40008000 (RO) 4000C000 (RO) 40010000 (RO) 40020000
        40040000      40060000      40080000      400A0000      400C0000
        400E0000      40100000      40120000      40140000      40160000
        40180000      401A0000      401C0000      401E0000      40200000
        40220000      40240000      40260000      40280000      402A0000
        402C0000      402E0000      40300000      40320000      40340000
        40360000      40380000      403A0000      403C0000      403E0000
    
    Bank # 2: AMD AM29LV160B (16 Mbit, bottom boot sect)
      Size: 4 MB in 35 Sectors
      Sector Start Addresses:
        40400000      40408000      4040C000      40410000      40420000
        40440000      40460000      40480000      404A0000      404C0000
        404E0000      40500000      40520000      40540000      40560000
        40580000      405A0000      405C0000      405E0000      40600000
        40620000      40640000      40660000      40680000      406A0000
        406C0000      406E0000      40700000      40720000      40740000
        40760000      40780000      407A0000      407C0000      407E0000
    
    => iminfo 40020000 40500000
    
    ## Checking Image at 40020000 ...
       Image Name:   2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
       Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
       Data Size:    381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
       Load Address: 00000000
       Entry Point:  0000000c
       Verifying Checksum ... OK
    
    ## Checking Image at 40500000 ...
       Image Name:   2.4.0-test5 850 NFS test-wd
       Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
       Data Size:    428089 Bytes = 418 kB = 0 MB
       Load Address: 00000000
       Entry Point:  00000000
       Verifying Checksum ... OK
    
    => bootm 40500000
    ## Booting Linux kernel at 40500000 ...
       Image Name:   2.4.0-test5 850 NFS test-wd
       Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
       Data Size:    428089 Bytes = 418 kB = 0 MB
       Load Address: 00000000
       Entry Point:  00000000
       Verifying Checksum ... OK
       Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
    Linux version 2.4.0-test5 (wd@denx.local.net) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
    (release)) #2 Wed Jul 26 21:19:54 MEST 2000
    Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.
    0.98:10.0.0.2
    On node 0 totalpages: 4096
    zone(0): 4096 pages.
    zone(1): 0 pages.
    zone(2): 0 pages.
    Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=
    10.0.0.98:10.0.0.2
    time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
    Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
    Memory: 14904k available (808k kernel code, 340k data, 40k init) [c0000000
    ,c1000000]
    Dentry-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
    Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
    Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
    Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
    POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
    Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.3
    Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
    NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
    NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
    IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
    IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
    TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
    Starting kswapd v1.7
    CPM UART driver version 0.03
    ttyS00 at 0x0280 is a SMC
    ttyS01 at 0x0380 is a SMC
    pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
    eth0: CPM ENET Version 0.2, 00:d0:93:00:02:6c
    IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.0.0.0
    kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh
    Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.0.0.2
    Looking up port of RPC 100005/2 on 10.0.0.2
    VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
    Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k init
    Stand-alone shell (version 2.1)
    > uname -a
    Linux 10.0.0.98 2.4.0-test5 #2 Wed Jul 26 21:19:54 MEST 2000 ppc unknown
    		

  • Image formats

    The "boot" commands of this monitor operate on "image" files which can be basicly anything, preceeded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for details; basicly, the header defines the following image properties:

    • Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks, LynxOS, pSOS, QNX; Currently supported: Linux)
    • Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86, IA64, MIPS, MIPS, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit; Currently supported: PowerPC)
    • Compression Type (Provisions for uncompressed, gzip, bzip2; Currently supported: uncompressed, gzip)
    • Load Address
    • Entry Point
    • Image Name
    • Image Timestamp

    The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by CRC32 checksums.

  • Linux Support

    Although PPCBOOT should support any OS or standalone application easily, Linux has always been in the focus during the design of PPCBOOT.

    PPCBOOT includes many features that so far have been part of some special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image; instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation serves serveral purposes:

    • the same features can be used for other OS or standalone applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the Flash memory footprint)
    • it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because lots of low-level, hardware dependend stuff are done by PPCBOOT
    • the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd" images; of course this also means that different kernel images can be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the software is easier now.

 
 

 
 
up PLANWed, 26 Jul 2000 22:40:31 +0200

The Embedded PowerPC Linux Boot Project (PPCBOOT) has implemented a common and easily extensible boot program for embedded devices. The entire project source code is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and takes advantage of an open development process at SourceForge.net, the highly popular portal of open source software development.

In the embedded world it is very important to provide a flexible way of configuring the system environment. Accordingly one of the project's primary goals is to achieve a very flexible way of configuring PPCBOOT. Developers must be able to decide which components are really needed within the actual target system.

It is also important to auto-detect hardware components at runtime, for example RAM or flash memory size or CPU type, in order to allow flexible extension of PowerPC hardware to be possible without need to change the code.

Another project goal is to support many standard off-the-shelf boards, in order to help speed up the development process at the beginning of new projects.

Future plans

Support for other devices such as USB or FireWire will also be implemented in the future, given sufficient interest.

It is expected that the PowerPC Linux community will contribute code to PPCBOOT, to extend its functionality with many new useful features.

The "mini application" feature

An interesting feature of PPCBOOT is the "standalone application" capability, which allows the inclusion of standalone application programs that are launched by PPCBOOT. For example, special diagnostic tools might be used to verify that system hardware is functioning as expected prior to booting Linux. In this manner, the standalone application feature of PPCBOOT could be used to replace "good old boot monitors".

Another interesting use of the standalone application capability could be to simplify the process of porting to new hardware -- because PPCBOOT does NOT need Linux. Consequently, it is possible to develop a driver for PPCBOOT first, and then use it with minor modification under Linux. In this process, the default Linux development tools (e.g. gcc and binutils) are used, so there is no need to learn special tools or techniques.

One reason the standalone appication feature is expected to be popular is that it is easy to implement. It is not necessary to worry about the environment; simply write the code, flash it together with PPCBOOT, and test it.

 
 

 
 
up DOWNLOADSun, 7 Jan 2001 18:52:43 +0100

ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/ppcboot/ppcboot-2.0.0.tar.bz2

To extract the archive use the following syntax:
bzip2 -cd ppcboot-1.2.0.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

NOTE:
The PPCBoot project has been discontinued. For new versions of the code please check with the "U-Boot" project at sourceforge, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

 
 

 
 
up CVSSat, 10 Jun 2000 01:10:03 +0200

This project's SourceForge CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. The module you wish to check out must be specified as the modulename. When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ppcboot.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ppcboot login

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ppcboot.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ppcboot co -P ppcboot

Updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d parameter.

Browse the CVS repository

 
 

 
 
up BUGSSat, 16 Sep 2000 18:38:25 +0200

Nothing special to say here at the moment. To report bugs use the SourceForge's own bug tracking system.

Submit a new bug.

 
 

 
 
up AUTHORSWed, 26 Jul 2000 22:40:31 +0200

This project base on the initial work from Magnus Damm called 8xxROM. I have had to rename it to PPCBOOT because SourceForge does not allow any names that start with a digit.
Thanks goes to all the people in the linuxppc-embedded mailing-list, especially to Dan Malek and his creat work on the Embedded PowerPC support in the Linux kernel.

People contribute to the PPCBOOT project :

 
 

 
 
up SPONSORSWed, 26 Jul 2000 22:40:31 +0200

Siemens

Speech-Design

 
 

 
 
up MAILING-LISTMon, 12 Mar 2001 21:05:44 +0100

Following mailing list archives are available at the moment :

 
 

up LINKSSat, 16 Sep 2000 18:38:25 +0200

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