Hi, I have 2.6.10 working on a mpc8250vr, the only thing that had to be done was moving around the clock pins. The performace is good.
/Hans On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 15:27, Saso Kavcic wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Have you noticed any improvements in 2.6.10. over 2.6.9? We were porting > 2.6.9 to a custom mpc8275vr > board and we were able to get everything working except ethernet (fcc > enet). We did manage to get > a few packets over it but it was all very slow, unstable and > unpredictable and it seemed that fcc enet > driver doesn't work well in 2.6. Were you able to use fcc under 2.6.9? > > Best Regards, Saso > > Steven Blakeslee wrote: > > >I would suggest going to the latest 2.6.10 kernel. I have it running > >with several ethernets running on all the 82xx processors. > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org > >>[mailto:linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of > >>Vijay Padiyar > >>Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:37 AM > >>To: LinuxPPC Support > >>Subject: Some issues with kernel 2.6 for MPC8260 target > >> > >>Hi all > >> > >>I wish to discuss some strange issues that I faced with > >>respect to the Linux > >>2.6.8 kernel (downloaded from kernel.org). Firstly, I wish to > >>know whether this has been known to work on an MPC8260 PowerPC target. > >> > >>Secondly, when I tried to compile the Linux kernel with my > >>toolchain (built with Dan Kegel's crosstool for the PowerPC > >>603e core, which is what my processor has), I got some errors > >>which I found to rather queer after investigation. Firstly, > >>let me state the errors that I got: > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> LD init/built-in.o > >> LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > >>arch/ppc/8260_io/built-in.o(.text+0x103c): In function > >>`mii_queue_relink': > >>arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c:1254: undefined reference to > >>`schedule_task' > >>arch/ppc/8260_io/built-in.o(.text+0x1074): In function > >>`mii_queue_config': > >>arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c:1263: undefined reference to > >>`schedule_task' > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >>On further investigation, I find that 'schedule_task()' is > >>simply not defined anywhere in the 2.6.8 kernel sources. This > >>is quite wierd! However, it is defined in a file 'context.c' > >>(linux-src/kernel) in the 2.4.27 kernel sources, which we > >>were using earlier. How is it that a function is being called > >>but its definition has been removed from the sources? > >> > >>Another such example is with the structure 'tq_struct'. It is > >>referred to in the file 'fcc_enet.c' > >>(linux-src/arch/ppc/8260_io) but it's not defined anywhere! > >>Again, after checking in the 2.4.27 sources, I find that it's > >>defined in the file 'tqueue.h' (linux-src/include/linux)! > >> > >>A third thing is that the 2.4.27 kernel source file 'uart.c' > >>(linux-src/arch/ppc/cpm2_io) is not present in the > >>corresponding folder in the 2.6.8 source > >>(linux-src/arch/ppc/8260_io). There is one 'uart.c' in the > >>folder '8xx_io', but it doesn't get compiled during the > >>kernel build process. Will my UART work correctly with this build? > >> > >>Can someone please tell me if there's some explanation for > >>this that I'm unaware of? Which would be the proper forum to > >>report this? Again I would like to ask: Has the 2.6.8 kernel > >>been tested successfully on the MPC8260 PowerPC platform? > >> > >>Lastly, where can I get the latest stable Linux kernel source > >>for the PowerPC platform? > >> > >>Regards > >> > >>Vijay Padiyar > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > >>Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > >>https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded > >> > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > >Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > >https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
