Hi all, thought I'd post a bit of what I'm doing. I'm an old software guy, but new to linux. We are a startup company, and part of what we are doing is creating a fairly high-end controller computer. We have started from a Wind River SBC 8560 Freescale processor & ref board, and spun a new board, with some PCI slots (for hard drives, video, and ???), so serial IO's, and some other cool stuff.

So we start by building U-Boot 1.1.6, for the ppc8560. Flash it into our 16M flash, and boot! Actually this is a PIA, and took a JTAG probe, and some WindRiver software $$$$$ to do it. Must be an easier way, or at least cheaper way to get something on a bare hardware device?

So to do this, I need ELDK cross-compiler. What a nicely done piece of software this is, easy to install, and it just works!

Next we build the kernel, 2.6.14, cross-compiled for the ppc8560, host is my RedHat box.

Then set up uboot to load kernel via tftp, nfs mount file system, and away we go!