From: "Chiou, Charles" <charleschiou@mips.com>
To: John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk>
Cc: eCos development list <ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org>
Subject: RE: eCos port/update for MIPS malta & sead3 platforms
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CD9FF9C3FDCD2E44BAB54EDCC176E15EC0C8E3@exchdb03.mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50BCBE0E.6040104@dallaway.org.uk>
Hi John,
> > Specifically, the patches will:
> >
> > - Update outdated drivers for proper hardware support on modern
> malta
> > - Support the SEAD3 board
> > - Retain compatibility with QEMU's malta emulator
>
> I have experimented with QEMU's Malta emulation and the eCos
> malta_mips32_4kc target in the past. I was able to boot RedBoot but QEMU's
> PCI support (required for eCos/RedBoot networking) seemed to be broken. Is
> this working now?
Yes, we've fixed this problem. The QEMU and real hardware addresses are different, but we've created different configs so that both are supported.
>
> > - Support the newest mips-sde-elf-gcc toolchain (Sourcery
> > CodeBench Lite 2012.03-64)
>
> Does your current eCos code continue to build with the eCos mipsisa32-elf
> toolchain (GCC 4.3.2)?
No. Building with mipsisa32-elf hasn't been verified. I'll give it a try.
> > Since we only focused on booting from Yamon and u-boot, we only tested
> > RAM configurations. However, if RedBoot support is required, we can
> > work with the maintainer to get a clean patch in, too.
>
> It would be good to support RedBoot, certainly we would wish to avoid
> breaking the existing RedBoot support for MIPS Malta.
Ok, I'll try with RedBoot, too.
> > Please let me know how I can proceed with sending the patch upstream.
>
> The procedure for contributing to eCos (via a Bugzilla report) is described at:
>
> http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom-serv/ecos/cache/45.html
I'll send the existing patch as is and get some feedback while the items mentioned above are being investigated from our end.
Thank you!
--
Best,
Charles Chiou
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 12:50 Chiou, Charles
2012-12-03 14:58 ` John Dallaway
2012-12-06 7:23 ` Chiou, Charles [this message]
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