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From: "Scott Moore" <smoore@powerfile.com>
To: "Gary Thomas" <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org,
		"Steve Gaskill" <sgaskill@powerfile.com>
Subject: RE: [ECOS] Notification of changes required for CPU support
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC0348D2176B4C4EA0CBB50AEFDBD9670B11D73E@MI8NYCMAIL14.Mi8.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D5C242.3010405@mlbassoc.com>

>How similar are the processor(s), apart from the interrupt handling difference you've pointed out?

>My preference would be to keep the tree as it is and add a CDL option which describes the processor.
>The code you've pointed to can then have conditional support based on this CDL.  Precedent for this
>would be the PowerPC (e.g. not all 8xx processors are the same, but they are close enough to have a
>common HAL) and SH (again a myriad of variants) Have a look at how those HALs handle this.  Once you
>have something that works, propose it on ecos-patches and we can discuss making these changes to the 
>common CVS.

Well, I don't have ecos running on the MCB2300 as yet, but the processors appear to be very
similar, and besides the interrupt changes there is only a clocking setup change. There are some
changes for the MCB2300 as well, so I suspect a different MCB2300 directory is justified.

Scott Moore
Powerfile Inc.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-29 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-29 12:03 [ECOS] timer alarm or any timer in Redboot Jacob Avraham
2007-08-29 12:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2007-08-29 18:48   ` [ECOS] Notification of changes required for CPU support Scott Moore
2007-08-29 19:00     ` Gary Thomas
2007-08-29 19:08       ` Scott Moore [this message]
2007-08-29 19:29     ` Hans Rosenfeld

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