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For users of the Atmel AT91SAM7 and AT91SAM9 ARM CPU chips. Atmel has taken a new direction by combining on chip flash and ram with the ARM CPU on a single die. This provides low cost devices for small systems using the ARM CPU. This group is to exchange information to help users get started and learn how to use the devices.

kernel not starting ............. - rohith S - May 5 9:17:53 2008

hi
i am rohith here i am doing porting linux arm related project have followed the following steps and then i transfer the kernel on to the evalution kit and also i load the ram disk.gz when i given the bootm command on the hyperterminal it is showing kernel starting.... ......... ......... ....... but it is not at all please reply what might be the error
steps

kernel irst of all: cross compiler tools arm-linux-gcc - 3.4.1 3.4.1 Has been installed directly downloaded from the Internet source and patches
linux- linux - 2.6.21 2.6.21 .tar.bz2 . tar.bz2 2.6.21 2.6.21 -at91.patch. gz - at91.patch.gz
Second: extract the above documents
$ tar jxvf linux- $ Tar jxvf linux - 2.6.21 2.6.21 .tar.bz2 . tar.bz2
$ C p 2.6.21 -at91.patch. gz /linux-2.6.21
$ cd linux- 2.6.21
$ zcat 2.6.21 -at91.patch. gz | patch –p1

linux- Laws linux - 2.6.21 2.6.21 Makefile Contents of the document Makefile

ARCH ?=$(SUBARCH)
CROSS_COMPILE
改成: With:
ARCH = arm
CROSS_COMPILE =/usr/local/ arm/ 3.4.1/ bin/arm-linux-
$ cp arch/arm/configs/ at91sam9261ek_ defconfig /.config
$ make clean
$ make zImage
UImage production of documents
$ / Usr / local / arm / 3.4.1 /bin/arm-linux- objcopy –O binary –S vmlinux linux.bin
$ gzip –v9 linux.bin
$./mkimage –A arm –O linux –T kernel –C gzip –a 0x20008000 –e 0x20008000 –d linux.bin.gz uImage
please reply me

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