From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:02:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:44942 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S22735937AbYJ3PCO (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:02:14 +0000 Received: from zcarhxs1.corp.nortel.com (zcarhxs1.corp.nortel.com [47.129.230.89]) by zrtps0kp.nortel.com (Switch-2.2.6/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id m9UF1Oi27672; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:01:24 GMT Received: from [47.130.80.67] ([47.130.80.67] RDNS failed) by zcarhxs1.corp.nortel.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:01:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4909CC40.1010106@nortel.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:01:20 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: David Daney , linux-mips , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "Paoletti, Tomaso" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] Add Cavium OCTEON processor support (v2). References: <490655B6.4030406@caviumnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2008 15:01:24.0071 (UTC) FILETIME=[603F4F70:01C93AA0] 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: 21121 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: cfriesen@nortel.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, David Daney wrote: > > >>This patch set introduces preliminary support for Cavium Networks' >>OCTEON processor family. More information about these processors may >>be obtained here: >> >>http://www.caviumnetworks.com/OCTEON_MIPS64.html > > > Well, in the context of a technical mailing list there isn't much more > information available at the link you've quoted; although I do understand > you might not be the most appropriate person to point it to. Honestly, > stating: "The family comprises SOC devices built around MIPS64 cores" > would provide about as much (little) information as the web site does. :( You can register for free at www.cnusers.org and they have a bit more information there as well as existing SDKs with full linux source for older versions. However, it looks like the really gory details are available only after signing an NDA. Chris