[ECOS] PCI PC Platform support

[ECOS] PCI PC Platform support

[Herb Ledebohm]

Am I right to assume this is not supported (I don't see anything in the
HAL)?

If not supported, is it interesting to provide this?

Herb Ledebohm - herb@omegaband.com
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Re: [ECOS] PCI PC Platform support

[Jonathan Larmour]

Herb Ledebohm wrote:
> 
> Am I right to assume this is not supported (I don't see anything in the
> HAL)?
> 
> If not supported, is it interesting to provide this?

Fabrice Gautier had some patches that were posted here before. Search the
mail archives for those, however I believe they were against an older
version of the repository.

One consideration is that there is a possibility that Red Hat may be making
some improvements to the x86 support (and we will certainly be including
the work Fabrice did for PCI and RedBoot support). Some of the changes may
be quite major - and will basically invalidate the current sources. However
it is not clear at this time whether Red Hat will be doing this for certain
:-/. The only way to guarantee support for you soon in the public sources
would be to contact Red Hat sales about doing the port. If you are
interested, contact ecos-info@redhat.com

Jifl
P.S. For anyone who notices I did cut-and-paste an earlier response :)
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RE: [ECOS] PCI PC Platform support

[Herb Ledebohm]

Thanks Jonathan,

One of our engineers here did a quick port this afternoon that seems to be
working ok.

If you guys would like to have it, you're welcome to it, but it seems that
Fabrice has probably already provided what's necessary.

On another note, what is the status of the Intel 82559 ethernet driver for
x86?  Although it is not critical that I have it, the latest source does not
build and I'm just curious if the next release will have full support.

Although our final target is the IQ80310 Xscale, we're using the PC as a
starting point (while we wait for our boards), and pc ethernet support would
have been very helpful.  Perhaps others might find it useful as well (maybe
Red Hat could provide this without making major improvements to the x86
port).

Herb Ledebohm - herb@omegaband.com
Omegaband, Inc., 9020-I Capital of Texas Hwy.
Suite 270, Austin, TX 78759.
Tel: (512) 401-8208
"Get wisdom; and with all your getting, get understanding."
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Subject: Re: [ECOS] PCI PC Platform support


Herb Ledebohm wrote:
>
> Am I right to assume this is not supported (I don't see anything in the
> HAL)?
>
> If not supported, is it interesting to provide this?

Fabrice Gautier had some patches that were posted here before. Search the
mail archives for those, however I believe they were against an older
version of the repository.

One consideration is that there is a possibility that Red Hat may be making
some improvements to the x86 support (and we will certainly be including
the work Fabrice did for PCI and RedBoot support). Some of the changes may
be quite major - and will basically invalidate the current sources. However
it is not clear at this time whether Red Hat will be doing this for certain
:-/. The only way to guarantee support for you soon in the public sources
would be to contact Red Hat sales about doing the port. If you are
interested, contact ecos-info@redhat.com

Jifl
P.S. For anyone who notices I did cut-and-paste an earlier response :)
--
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Re: [ECOS] PCI PC Platform support

[Fabrice Gautier]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:23:05 -0600
"Herb Ledebohm" <herb@omegaband.com> wrote:

> On another note, what is the status of the Intel 82559 ethernet driver for
> x86?  Although it is not critical that I have it, the latest source does not
> build and I'm just curious if the next release will have full support.

Back in October or November the status was "It works for me"

Now, I think this eth driver has been heavily reworked and i dn't think
my patches will apply now.

(There are patches at ftp://ftp.sigmadesigns.com/ecos , not sure if i
posted some other patches on the list after)

> Although our final target is the IQ80310 Xscale, we're using the PC as a
> starting point (while we wait for our boards), and pc ethernet support would
> have been very helpful.  Perhaps others might find it useful as well (maybe
> Red Hat could provide this without making major improvements to the x86
> port).

That was the same for me. Plus the existing software was written
primarily for x86.

A+

-- 
Fabrice Gautier
gautier@email.enst.fr