[linuxdc-dev] hello

[Erik A. <and...@co...>]

Hi, I'm new to the list.  I spent some time this morning porting
the linux-sh and linux-sh-dc kernel trees up to
linux-2.4.20-pre10.  The ports were not especially difficult and
the only place that required any violence was the sh watchdog
driver, which had some conflicts vs the kernel version.  I've
given it a quick try (replacing boot/vmlinux in
dreamcast-linux-010605 and burning a CD), but when ecos tries to
load it, it gives me: 
    RedBoot> load -v /boot/vmlinux
    load_elf_image_aborted: seek: attempt to seek backwards" 
Suggestions on how to track down why ecos refuses to load the
kernel image?

I used the sh toolchain from 
    ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/dodes/debian/
but I don't have a lot of confidence in gcc 3.0.3 -- I've had
some bad luck with gcc 3.0 in general, so it may very well be the
toolchain.  dunno.  What is the recommended toolchain for
Dreamcast/SH4 kernel hacking?  gcc 3.2 / binutils 2.12.1? 

For the curious (or the helpful), my patches for 2.4.20-pre10
can be found here:
    http://codepoet.org/dreamcast/

 -Erik

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