From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:04:44 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Porting to Broadcom BCM7038 (Hermes board) In-Reply-To: <20090819191933.5053D833DBD2@gemini.denx.de> (Wolfgang Denk's message of "Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:19:33 +0200") References: <574bb010908180632o3b13a11cwa967ce37ff4b404a@mail.gmail.com> <20090819191933.5053D833DBD2@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Wolfgang, > Dear Detlev Zundel, > > In message you wrote: >> >> Not quite. A quick check reveals that the bcm7038 is a r5000 based >> mips64 bit at heart (I'm a little confused here, there seem to be also >> 32bit r5000?). So not only will you be doing a new cpu port (level 2), >> but really a new architecture , i.e. mips64 - so you enter the game at >> level 3 ;) > > That's not quite correct. IIRC, the "purple" board also uses a 64bit > MIPS processor (5Kc). So it's "just" anothe rnew board port. Yep, I've seen this. But as this board defines "CONFIG_MIPS32" in its config, I wasn't so sure about the real situation. Cheers Detlev -- "Win32 sucks so hard it could pull matter out of a Black Hole." -- Pohl Longsine -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de