From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QBtLV-0006bP-Uv for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:38:50 +0000 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:38:47 +0200 From: Robert Schwebel Message-ID: <20110418183847.GO3811@pengutronix.de> References: <20110418183313.GP14770@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110418183313.GP14770@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: New MACH Addition To: Sascha Hauer Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Marko Milutinovic Hi Sascha, On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 08:33:13PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:17:47PM -0600, Marko Milutinovic wrote: > > I recently ported barebox to a platform using an old AT91 chip > > (at91m55800a, ARM7TDMI core). There is already a MACH_AT91 folder > > but this chip is sufficiently different that I just made a new > > folder MACH_AT91_legacy. This was just a test project for me to get > > familiar with using barebox. > > > > I'm just wondering if there is any value in me merging in the code > > for this? I realize it's a pretty old chipset, but I'm finding > > barebox very useful and would like to contribute to it. > > I never even heard of this chip. I think adding support for it should > be ok, but we might remove it in the future should non trivial > architecture changes become necessary and nobody cares for updating > this. We should somewhere have a board with this chip in the archive: http://www.phytec.de/de/produkte/module-im-ueberblick/phycore/produktdetails/p/phycore-at91m55800a.html Marko, are you working with a recent mainline kernel on this cpu? I'm wondering about the mmu-less state of the kernel. Havn't tried for some time. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox