Hi Alberich

On Saturday 25 June 2011 01:08:41 Alberich de megres wrote:
> Hi Mates,
> 
> I'm new on this list, and i like to make openwrt working on some of my
> home routers, the one where i'm most interested is cisco e3000. But I
> got some questions of the porting itself.
> (I searched before some info about this routers and its serial/jtag
> connection). I never worked with platforms like mips (only x86 and
> similars).
> 
> I saw the cpu is supported by vanilla linux kernel (bcm47xx). In case
> I just incorporate the code to openwrt kernel, or even more simple,
> compile vanilla kernel what happens with the boot loader? how can i
> make it work with the router? I mean does it need to interact with CFE
> env? is there any possibilitied to blow up CFE when testing firmwares
> or CFE is only writable when you try to update it?

The vanilla bcm47xx code only support the old-style: BCM47xx and BCM53xx 
family of System-on-Chip. The new style SoC like BCM4716 and BCM4718 are still 
work in progress both for mainline kernel and for OpenWrt kernels.

> 
> I'm a little bit lost whit the start point. Is there some significant
> modification on the openwrt kernel version (code level) that makes it
> different from vanilla?

Since patches for BCM4716 and BCM4718 have been posted to the linux-mips 
mailing-list, it would be easier to just throw them in 
target/linux/brcm47xx/patches-3.0/ and rebuild a kernel with the appropriate 
options.
-- 
Florian
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