Re: [Xenomai] Porting Ipipe to new ARM SoC (Xilinx Zynq)

[Stefan Roese <stefan.roese@gmail.com>]

Hi Matthew,

On 01/12/2013 06:21 PM, mfornero@aanddtech.com wrote:
>    I'm looking for recommendations on how to best port ipipe support to a
>    new ARM SoC. The SoC has started to show up in mainline, but many of
>    the features haven't made it over yet. Xilinx maintains a git repo
>    here:
> 
>    git://git.xilinx.com/linux-xlnx.git
> 
>    And it look like they've synced with mainline 3.6
> 
>    The two approaches I've considered were either trying to port ipipe to
>    stock 3.6 (or at least the generic and ARM bits) or trying to backport
>    the Xilinx code to 3.5.3. I started with the later approach, but some
>    changes to the common clock architecture between 3.5 and 3.6 make this
>    somewhat difficult.
> 
>    Any thoughts on which approach would be better?

I'm also working on supporting Zynq in I-pipe. My approach was to use
the Xilinx 3.5.0 code version (git tag "xilinx-14.3-build2"). And port
the I-pipe version from Gilles git repository to it. I still need to do
some cleanup then I can send you the latest version.

Best regards,
Stefan