From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:02:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from x1000-57.tellink.net ([IPv6:::ffff:63.161.110.249]:48377 "EHLO tibook.netx4.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:02:46 +0000 Received: from embeddededge.com (IDENT:dan@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tibook.netx4.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i0SF3JT00914; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:03:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4017CF37.4070708@embeddededge.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:03:19 -0500 From: Dan Malek Organization: Embedded Edge, LLC. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sylvain Munaut CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 on AMD Alchemy Au1500 References: <4017927B.5080907@246tNt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4161 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@embeddededge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Sylvain Munaut wrote: > For a new design, we're considering Alchemy Au1500 processor family. I'd > like to know what is the current state of the linux 2.6 on this > platforms / experiences ? There are several of us working on it. The kernel is basically functional, and we are now in the midst of the 36-bit addressing updates for the peripherals, such as PCI. This should be completed soon. > I mainly need : > - PCI support to connect Wifi, IDE controller, USB2.0 Host, FireWire > controller > - Included Ethernet support If you are looking for product support, you should probably be contacting people that provide these services :-) We will eventually get around to testing all of these devices, but those of us working on this are likely to have different priorities. > I've seen in the kernel sources that it should be supported but I'd like > to know if there are known issues, comments, ... The kernel, serial ports, internal Ethernet are all functional. The PCI is going to require we complete the 36-bit addressing (as was done in 2.4), and then I suspect the devices in your list will work as well as the maintainers of them advertise, since they aren't Au1xxx specific. Thanks. -- Dan