Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-26 Thread Björn Wetterbom
I'd love to help out to the best of my abilities. Please tell me how. 2009/3/25 Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Björn Wetterbom wrote: What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Björn Wetterbom
What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users who don't compile our own kernels and want our machine to start every day, every time? Will initial support consist of install packages from Martin or others, and official Debian

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Björn Wetterbom wrote: What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users who don't compile our own kernels and want our machine to start every day, every time? Will initial support

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com [2009-03-25 16:56]: What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users who don't compile our own kernels and want our machine to start every day, every time? Will initial support consist of

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Björn Wetterbom wrote: What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users who don't compile our own kernels and want our machine to

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com [2009-03-25 16:19]: I'd suggest the latter, unless you want to help out -- there are ways to do that, even if you don't know how to write code. OK, I'm game. I'd love to help. Where can I buy one? What else will I need in the way of hardware? You can find

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com [2009-03-25 16:19]: I'd suggest the latter, unless you want to help out -- there are ways to do that, even if you don't know how to write code. OK, I'm game. I'd love to help. Where can I buy one?

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-17 Thread Thomas Boehne
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: What kind of test would you like to see? I was not interested in any special test, either netperf, netio, netcat or just ftp would be a good starting point. On the 6281 at 1.2 GHz, I get wire speed TCP transmit when GSO is enabled, and wire speed TCP receive when LRO

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-17 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:34:18AM +0100, Thomas Boehne wrote: On the 6281 at 1.2 GHz, I get wire speed TCP transmit when GSO is enabled, and wire speed TCP receive when LRO is enabled (which mv643xx_eth supports since recently -- it's currently in net-next). Wirespeed sounds extremely

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-16 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 21:09:33 +0100, Martin Michlmayr (t...@cyrius.com) wrote: For the record, I received a SheevaPlug yesterday and this will be my next big project. I'll blog about it soon with some more information and thoughts.

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-16 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 08:22 +, Bob Cox wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 21:09:33 +0100, Martin Michlmayr (t...@cyrius.com) wrote: For the record, I received a SheevaPlug yesterday and this will be my next big project. I'll blog about it soon with some more information and

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-16 Thread Thomas Boehne
Martin, Martin Michlmayr wrote: For the record, I received a SheevaPlug yesterday and this will be my next big project. I'll blog about it soon with some more information and thoughts. we have also ordered a few SheevaPlugs but our retailer said that it will take at least two more weeks to

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thomas Boehne tboe...@adwin.de [2009-03-16 10:22]: we have also ordered a few SheevaPlugs but our retailer said that it will take at least two more weeks to deliver. We are very interested in data throughput, could you please post some very basic ethernet performace numbers? My main concern

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-16 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 22:58 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Thomas Boehne tboe...@adwin.de [2009-03-16 10:22]: we have also ordered a few SheevaPlugs but our retailer said that it will take at least two more weeks to deliver. We are very interested in data throughput, could you please post

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-16 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:17:39AM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: we have also ordered a few SheevaPlugs but our retailer said that it will take at least two more weeks to deliver. We are very interested in data throughput, could you please post some very basic ethernet performace

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-11 Thread Stuart Winter
Yes, it will be in 2.6.30. Marvell has their own git tree at http://git.marvell.com/?p=orion.git;a=shortlog;h=combined and they typically submit their patches very quickly. Note that the support for the CPU itself and most of the peripherals has been in kernel.org since 2.6.27 or so --

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-11 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:52:39 +0100, Martin Michlmayr (t...@cyrius.com) wrote: For the record, I received a SheevaPlug yesterday and this will be my next big project. I'll blog about it soon with some more information and thoughts. I am looking forward very much to reading this Martin.

Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-10 Thread Björn Wetterbom
I just joined the list and sifted through a couple of months of the archive. With regards to Martin Michlmayr starting up work on Kirkwood support ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2009/02/msg00057.html) I wanted to share a link concerning a Kirkwood application:

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Björn Wetterbom bj...@wetterbom.se [2009-03-10 08:39]: I wanted to share a link concerning a Kirkwood application: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16466 For the record, I received a SheevaPlug yesterday and this will be my next big project. I'll blog about it soon with some more

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk [2009-03-10 18:09]: Do you know whether there are plans to get support for this device into the kernel.org Kernel? There are so many ARM devices that run Linux where the support never makes it upstream - and very quickly the patches become unmaintained

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-10 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:52:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Do you know whether there are plans to get support for this device into the kernel.org Kernel? There are so many ARM devices that run Linux where the support never makes it upstream - and very quickly the patches become