[linuxsh-dev] Linux on the Solution Engine(s)

[Jeremy S. <js...@mv...>]

Like many other folks out there, I've been playing with Linux-SH on some
of Hitachi's Solution Engine boards.  Although sh-ipl+g and friends are
great -- many thanks to Niibe!! -- we think it'd be nice if people
getting started with the Solution Engine could use it with the (shudder)
native Hitachi monitor.  (Until they wise up, of course.)

Anyway, I didn't see a target image that seemed meant for easy download
and startup that way, so instead I've been using a tweaked zImage target
which (a) keeps the empty_zero_page, (b) puts the command line in it so
setting up the console is easy, and (c) ends up with S-records.  (What
I'd really like to to is make the kernel command line configurable via
menuconfig, so you can specify the default in the absence of a loader
w/o editing source.)  So I have these questions:

1. Is there some reason why empty_zero_page is explicitly removed, and
leaving it in would be a problem? (I.e. leave it in for all targets, as
the .gdbinit or whatever will overwrite it anyway if it's not what you
want?)

2) Any objections to including changes like that in the tree if I submit
them? (Any preferences on the target name -- I'm thinking zsImage?)

3) Am I just being dense?  Did I miss something obvious?  (If so, could
someone elaborate -- on the second part of that question, I mean...)

Thanks for any comments...

--Jeremy Siegel