From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:21:25 -0800 Received: from u-240.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.21.240]:23313 "EHLO u-240.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:21:16 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:55:29 +0100 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:55:29 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Pete Popov Cc: "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: rm7000/orion board Message-ID: <20001102135528.A19967@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A00EEDF.7C5E6BD5@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A00EEDF.7C5E6BD5@mvista.com>; from ppopov@mvista.com on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:34:39PM -0800 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:34:39PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote: > There's some R7000 support, apparently added for an "Orion" board. Has > any one had any experience with this board, or with linux on the R7000 > in general? The Orion is an embedded application based on the RM7000, not an evaluation board. The RM7000 as is in CVS isn't currently completly supported. In particular that code doesn't handle the L2 and L3 caches, so as is no DMA I/O is supported for RM7000. Aside of that it's fine CPU with Linux - and one of the few 64-bit MIPSes with sane caches. I got some RM7000 code in the queue - but I will not commit it before it's tested on something better than vapor hardware. Ralf