Re: Re :Re: [Ltib] ltib error -linux2.6.20.6 with MPC8360E MDS

2008-11-25 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Jon Loeliger wrote: nanda wrote: Hi Stuart, Thanks for the information. gpp access was resolved. I was successful in building the linux 2.6.11 using the ltib and able to bring up the MPC8360 EMDS. But, I still face the problem for linux kernel 2.6.19 and 2.6.20. When I tried using

[PATCH] libfdt: Fix error in documentation for fdt_get_alias_namelen()

2008-10-04 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Oops, screwed up the function name in the documenting comment for this function. Trivial correction in this patch. Signed-off-by: David Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Gerald Van Baren [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- David's cut-n-paste fix git-ized and applied to the dtc repo. Best regards, gvb

Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] powerpc: Board support for GE Fanuc SBC610

2008-09-03 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Martyn Welch wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:04:18 -0500 Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 26, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Martyn Welch wrote: + + PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED] { + device_type = cpu; + reg = 0x; +

Re: problem in booting kernel with mpc836x_mds.dtb

2008-08-07 Thread Jerry Van Baren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the following problem, when i am trying to boot linux on MPC8360E MDS board with the mpc836x_mds.dtb created using dtc and mpc836x_mds.dts in from /arch/powerpc/boot/platforms/dts/ directory of linux-2.6.22 version. fdt_chosen: FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC after this

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-21 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Scott Wood wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:44:46PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote: I'm a half-ack. ;-) I'm partial to u-boot's implementation rather than using a bootwrapper for obvious reasons. The u-boot implementation takes the blob as a boot parameter and passes it along to the kernel

Re: linux BSP

2008-07-19 Thread Jerry Van Baren
VenkataKrishna wrote: Dear Friends, I want to ……… 1. How to develop linux BSP to MPC8260. The term BSP (Board Support Package) is not used much in linux-land. By BSP you are probably referring to a boot program (bootrom) and a linux configuration (kernel/drivers). For a bootrom, I

Re: Mikrotik RouterBoard 333

2008-07-13 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Grant Likely wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:26:32PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: Does anyone on this list have contacts with the makers of this board? Its firmware apparently provides a flattened device tree to the OS. And while this step towards world domination is flattering, it's an

Re: Default flats for running dtc from kernel build

2008-06-15 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Peter Czanik wrote: Hello, Kumar Gala írta: diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile index c40fb82..52db85a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO BOOTCFLAGS += -g endif +DTS_FLAGS

Re: [PATCH v2] Make 83xx perfmon support selectable

2008-03-20 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Kumar Gala wrote: On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Scott Wood wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 05:59:03PM -0600, Andy Fleming wrote: Not all e300 cores support the performance monitors, and the ones that don't will be confused by the mf/mtpmr instructions. This allows the support to be optional,

Re: [PATCH v2] Make 83xx perfmon support selectable

2008-03-08 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Andy Fleming wrote: Not all e300 cores support the performance monitors, and the ones that don't will be confused by the mf/mtpmr instructions. This allows the support to be optional, so the 8349 can turn it off while the 8379 can turn it on. Sadly, those aren't config options, so it will

Re: [PATCH] The MPC83xx family doesn't support performance monitor instructions

2008-03-06 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Kumar Gala wrote: On Mar 5, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Gerald Van Baren wrote: Errata to MPC8349EA PowerQUICC[tm] II Pro Integrated Host Processor Family Reference Manual, Rev. 1 (Freescale) Signed-off-by: Gerald Van Baren [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Hi Kumar, Please apply this fix to 2.6.25rc4 if

Re: [dtc] breaking out libfdt from dtc so other progs can use it

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Jerone Young wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:59 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:30:44 -0600 Jerone Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [big snip] You still haven't explained why maintenance is harder or somehow less doable by having it in the dtc repo. Maintenance is very much

Re: libfdt: More tests of NOP handling behaviour

2008-02-22 Thread Jerry Van Baren
David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:18:19PM -0500, Jerry Van Baren wrote: Jon Loeliger wrote: So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled: In light of the recently discovered bug with NOP handling, this adds some more testcases for NOP handling. Specifically, it adds a helper

Re: libfdt: More tests of NOP handling behaviour

2008-02-19 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Jon Loeliger wrote: So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled: In light of the recently discovered bug with NOP handling, this adds some more testcases for NOP handling. Specifically, it adds a helper program which will add a NOP tag after every existing tag in a dtb, and runs the

Stupid git question: adding acked-by

2007-12-08 Thread Jerry Van Baren
OK git gurus, this is something I have not figured out: the best way to add acked-by (or additional signed-off-by) lines to git patches. What I'm talking about is when I've applied a patch to my repo and published the change on the list and get an acked-by back. By the time I get the ack, the

Re: Hardware debuggers for PPC74xx G4 CPUs

2007-11-14 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Jon Smirl wrote: On 11/13/07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why Dominic wants to get OpenOCD running on the PowerPC. All we need is the programming documentation for controlling the CPU via the debug hardware. Note that this is basically different for every CPU

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Use embedded libfdt in the bootwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Scott Wood wrote: Jerry Van Baren wrote: My concern from the u-boot side is that u-boot has to know exactly *where* to put the expanded blob because it has to pass it to linux and keep it out of linux' way so it doesn't get stepped on. Linux has an advantage in that it owns all of memory

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Use embedded libfdt in the bootwrapper

2007-11-08 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Scott Wood wrote: David Gibson wrote: How hard would it be to get libfdt to dynamically allocate any extra space it needs? This is a regression from the current flat device tree code... Uh.. it already does. Or rather, the shims in libfdt-wrapper.c do so, when libfdt functions which can

Re: libfdt as its own repo and submodule of dtc?

2007-10-31 Thread Jerry Van Baren
David Gibson wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:14:06PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote: Jon Loeliger wrote: So, like, the other day Kumar Gala mumbled: Jon, It seems like have libfdt as a unique git repo that is a submodule of the things that need it (dtc, u-boot, etc.) might make some sense

Re: libfdt as its own repo and submodule of dtc?

2007-10-30 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Jon Loeliger wrote: So, like, the other day Kumar Gala mumbled: Jon, It seems like have libfdt as a unique git repo that is a submodule of the things that need it (dtc, u-boot, etc.) might make some sense and it easier for the projects that need to pull it in. Is this something you can

Re: qe: add ability to upload QE firmware

2007-10-18 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Timur Tabi wrote: Define the layout of a binary blob that contains a QE firmware and instructions on how to upload it. Add function qe_upload_microcode() to parse the blob and perform the actual upload. Fully define 'struct rsp' in immap_qe.h to include the actual RISC Special Registers.

Re: [PATCH 3/4] mpc8349emitx: Add chosen node for default stdout path

2007-07-20 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Scott Wood wrote: Jerry Van Baren wrote: Scott Wood wrote: Kim Phillips wrote: The LIBFDT implementation replaces any existing /chosen with its fixed up version. Sort of. If /chosen doesn't exist, it creates it. If /chosen exists and force parameter is false, it doesn't touch

Re: [PATCH 3/4] mpc8349emitx: Add chosen node for default stdout path

2007-07-19 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Scott Wood wrote: Kim Phillips wrote: the old FLAT_TREE u-boot fdt fixup code renames any existing chosen node out of the way, and adds its fixed up version as /chosen. Not in my experience. My experience is that it blindly created a second /chosen node. The LIBFDT implementation replaces