From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Marko Milutinovic <markomilutin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New MACH Addition
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:38:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110418183847.GO3811@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110418183313.GP14770@pengutronix.de>
Hi Sascha,
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 08:33:13PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:17:47PM -0600, Marko Milutinovic wrote:
> > I recently ported barebox to a platform using an old AT91 chip
> > (at91m55800a, ARM7TDMI core). There is already a MACH_AT91 folder
> > but this chip is sufficiently different that I just made a new
> > folder MACH_AT91_legacy. This was just a test project for me to get
> > familiar with using barebox.
> >
> > I'm just wondering if there is any value in me merging in the code
> > for this? I realize it's a pretty old chipset, but I'm finding
> > barebox very useful and would like to contribute to it.
>
> I never even heard of this chip. I think adding support for it should
> be ok, but we might remove it in the future should non trivial
> architecture changes become necessary and nobody cares for updating
> this.
We should somewhere have a board with this chip in the archive:
http://www.phytec.de/de/produkte/module-im-ueberblick/phycore/produktdetails/p/phycore-at91m55800a.html
Marko, are you working with a recent mainline kernel on this cpu? I'm
wondering about the mmu-less state of the kernel. Havn't tried for some
time.
rsc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-18 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-18 18:17 New MACH Addition Marko Milutinovic
2011-04-18 18:33 ` Sascha Hauer
2011-04-18 18:38 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2011-04-18 21:04 ` Marko Milutinovic
2011-04-19 6:51 ` Robert Schwebel
2011-04-19 15:06 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
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