arch/powerpc, Xilinx, and mainline kernel support

[Koss, Mike (Mission Systems)]

So yesterday, we got a chance to checkout Linus' main (2.26.26-rc3) and
it appears to not have all the necessary updates to build for the
Generic Xilinx Virtex either.

For now, I've decided to work from the Xilinx git-tree.

We also gave the EDK bsp->dts generator a spin, and I have a comment on
it: documentation. It would be nice to have some kind of simple README
that explains what it is and what it supports. The current README talks
about using the old python script. I fired up the bsp against my EDK 9.1
MPMC(2) based system and it bombed out when it reached the MPMC2
definition. So I dug through the tcl and found it that it was only
supporting the MPMC3.

I'm still working on my EDK 9.2 MPMC3 system, so I can't check to see if
that works or not, yet.

-- Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Neuendorffer [mailto:stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 6:34 PM
To: Grant Likely; Koss, Mike (Mission Systems)
Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
Subject: RE: arch/powerpc, Xilinx, and mainline kernel support



> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces+stephen=neuendorffer.name at ozlabs.org
[mailto:linuxppc-embedded-
> bounces+stephen=neuendorffer.name at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Grant
Likely
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 3:27 PM
> To: Koss, Mike (Mission Systems)
> Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: arch/powerpc, Xilinx, and mainline kernel support
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Koss, Mike (Mission Systems) 
> <mike.koss at ngc.com> wrote:
> > Is there any reason why the mainline 2.6.25.3 (and from what I could
see .4)
> > is missing the files to build for the Xilinx Virtex platform?
> >
> > Or in other words, I tried to build from 2.6.25.3 for the Xilinx
Virtex
> > under arch/powerpc (because arch/ppc actually crashes when once apps
start
> > to run) and it failed when trying to actually create the zImage. I
hopped
> > over to Xilinx's git server and noticed a bunch of missing entries
in the
> > boot/Makefile and source code to actually support the complete image
build
> > for a Xilinx Virtex PPC405.
> >
> > When is the Xilinx Virtex support going to be mainline official? I
need to
> > be able to grab a stable kernel and work from there rather than
using the
> > latest -rc that Xilinx is hosting on their git server.
> 
> Working on it.  Biggest problem is getting the device drivers in 
> shape.  However, other than Ethernet support, current arch/powerpc 
> (head of Linus' tree, not 2.6.25) should work for building virtex 
> kernels.

Mike,

What is your objection to using what is in the git tree, because it is
based on 24-rc8 and not 25, or something more fundamental?

Steve


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