Hi Ross, Dave

ROACH2 BORPH kernel can be found in:
https://github.com/ska-sa/borph_linux_devel

As rightly pointed out, it is a migration from old CASPER subversion to git
but with few newer commits.

Regards
Shanly Rajan


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:37 AM, David MacMahon <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, Ross,
>
> The ROACH1 BORPH kernel can be found in the old CASPER Subversion
> repository.  I don't know where the older BEE2 BORPH code is located, but
> the ROACH1 BORPH work was almost certainly based on that.
>
> I don't know for sure which Linux source code version the original
> Subversion commit was based on, but it appears to be commit a9bf9f0 from
> the denx.de kernel tree (two commits after tag DENX-v2.6.26).  I have
> converted the BORPH stuff from the old CASPER Subversion repository to git
> and grafted it onto the denx.de repository at that commit.  You can clone
> this via:
>
> git clone http://astro.berkeley.edu/~davidm/oldborph.git
>
> After cloning that, you can fetch the more recent denx.de (or kernel.org)
> history by running these commands (or variations) from within the cloned
> repository:
>
> git remote add denx git://git.denx.de/linux-denx.git
> get fetch denx
>
> But I doubt that's what you really want to do.  Porting the old BORPH
> stuff to modern kernels is not going to be easy or fun.  You'd be much
> better off porting the newer memory mapped drivers for ROACH2 back to
> ROACH1.  You can get the source code for the newer stuff from the ska-sa
> linux tree at:
>
> git clone git://github.com/ska-sa/linux.git
>
> Hope this helps,
> Dave
>
> P.S.  There is also a 2.6.25 BORPH kernel repo at git://
> github.com/ska-sa/borph_linux_devel.git, but I don't know it's lineage.
>  It looks like a conversion from Subversion, but it doesn't seem like it
> came from the old CASPER svn repo
> https://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/linux/ even though it has
> newer commits.
>
> On Apr 3, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Ross Williamson wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've been playing around in my spare time trying to get Debian squeeze
> as the OS for a ROACH board (possibly a bad/pointless idea but hey).  The
> issue I'm facing is that I need a kernel with UDEV support in and so
> launched into cross-compiling one.  The problem is finding a BORPH patch
> that matches the kernel - I came across the following two links
> >
> > https://github.com/brandonhamilton/BORPH
> >
> > http://wiki.netfpga.org/foswiki/bin/view/NetFPGA/OneGig/BORPH
> >
> > The first one doesn't mention which kernel the patch is for (fails on
> latest 2.6) and then second one has no permissions for the link.
> >
> > Does anyone have links to a later version of the kernel with the BORPH
> patch in? I'd like sources so I can really break things.....
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ross
> >
> > --
> > Ross Williamson
> > Research Scientist - Sub-mm Group
> > California Institute of Technology
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> > 312-504-3051 (Cell)
>
>
>


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