Hey Andrew, If you need hardware samples, let me know and I will support you on the rtl8196. I can also get you the rtl8196 factory sdk if you need it.
Best Regards, Jason On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I'm currently working on the rtl8196 OpenWRT port. My initial patches can > be found here: > http://invyl.ath.cx/cgit/cgit.cgi/openwrt/ > > I'm currently using external rsdk-linux- toolchain, that came along with > the bsp from the trendnet router. > The actual hardware is a edup pocket router. > It's kind of old: (gcc 3.4). > > The current state is: > * Initial stuff commited to OpwnWRT makefiles, > * Initial patches to make the kernel somewhat compile are ready. > I'm now working out the linker problems and writing the image packager > Makefile > > My questions here are: > Is OpenWRT okay with this archeological gcc? Or should I expect more weird > bugs? > Since the CPU is LexraCore it misses some patented instructions so usual > mips-linux- toolchain won't work > without hacing it. There used to be a patch at > gcc maillists, but it doesn't look like it made it into the main branch. > > What conserns the kernel, I tried to apply the minimal set of patches to > make this stuff work. > However, some subsystems are quite a mess. This is the current state: > * board support is sh*tty in the bsp, symlinked to out of kernel dir and > with little board-specific code. > needs a full rewrite. > * mtd dev support needs some cleaup (shouldn't be that difficult) > * lan and wifi are messy, but kind of work, I just didn't have the ocasion > to have a closer look at them > * gpio support sucks: they made it a char dev incompatible with mostly > anything. Board-specific code in the driver > itself. Needs a full rewrite. > * Some files in the kernel are symlinks to something like > /home/$codemonkeyname/somedir..../file.c. Hopefully I've > cleaned that all. > > Regards, > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >
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