From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:16:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from neptune.fsa.ucl.ac.be ([IPv6:::ffff:130.104.233.21]:14277 "EHLO neptune.fsa.ucl.ac.be") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:16:01 +0000 Received: from 246tNt.com (21-6.CampusNet.ucl.ac.be [130.104.21.6]) by neptune.fsa.ucl.ac.be (8.12.10/8.12.9/mp-2002.03.25) with ESMTP id i0SFFKfe027382; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:15:22 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <4017D213.8070108@246tNt.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:15:31 +0100 From: Sylvain Munaut User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031211 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Malek CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 on AMD Alchemy Au1500 References: <4017927B.5080907@246tNt.com> <4017CF37.4070708@embeddededge.com> In-Reply-To: <4017CF37.4070708@embeddededge.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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: 4165 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: tnt@246tnt.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Dan Malek 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. > Ok cool. >> 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. Yes, what I meant is that I needed PCI support and wanted to know if it was OK, the chips I connect on it are supported. I just forgot to ask if the AC97 stuff was already supported by the ALSA stuff in the kernel ? Thanks for the info Munaut Sylvain