From: Neil Russell <caret@c-side.com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@netx4.com>
Cc: diekema_jon <diekema@bucks.si.com>,
all@cideas.com, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Floating Point problems with Linux on the EST SBC8260
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:06:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000524160640.E9100@lx.c-side.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <392C5713.1C921311@embeddededge.com>; from Dan Malek on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 06:26:27PM -0400
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> You should be able to lift the driver from the 2.3.99 kernel and make
> a couple of minor modifications. There are just a couple of obvious
> places where the kernel/driver interface changes (synchronization points),
> and then add the 8260 interrupt and cache snooping changes. It may be
> easier to take the 8xx enet.c driver from 2.2.13 and apply 8260 changes.
I'm taking the 2.2 version and going from there, as I did with the SMC driver.
> Are you using SMC1 for the console? Is this a custom board?
console = SMC1. First ported to SBC8260 (EST board), then to custom h/w.
The custom h/w has an IDE interface; I hope to get the whole linux-1999 Q3
working on it; that should be interesting.
> Do you want any of the work patched into 2.2.15 or 2.3.99?
Sure! It might be a few weeks though...
Neil.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20000524134257.A9100@lx.c-side.com>
[not found] ` <m12uikI-001SyaC@bucks>
2000-05-24 22:05 ` Floating Point problems with Linux on the EST SBC8260 Neil Russell
2000-05-24 22:26 ` Dan Malek
2000-05-24 23:06 ` Neil Russell [this message]
2000-05-25 1:22 ` Dan Malek
2000-05-25 3:17 ` Neil Russell
2000-05-25 3:45 ` Dan Malek
2000-05-25 12:13 ` Geir Frode Raanes
2000-05-25 17:30 ` Dan Malek
2000-05-26 10:01 ` Adrian Cox
2000-05-26 12:49 ` Geir Frode Raanes
2000-05-26 13:52 ` Adrian Cox
2000-05-24 23:33 ` diekema_jon
2000-05-25 14:44 Gessner, Matt
2000-05-25 16:52 ` Dan Malek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-05-24 19:47 diekema_jon
2000-05-24 20:42 ` Bill Roman
2000-05-30 15:36 ` diekema_jon
2000-05-24 20:43 ` Neil Russell
2000-05-24 20:44 ` Neil Russell
2000-05-24 21:31 ` Dan Malek
2000-05-24 23:41 ` diekema_jon
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