RE: asm/*.h files missing for ppc arch.

2006-09-09 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Sorry that mmu.h is there. However ptrace.h, cputime.h and so on are not in asm-ppc/. Waiting for your telling... Regards Ming From: Ming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: asm/*.h files missing for ppc arch. Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:05:27 + Dear

RE: ML403 patch for UBOOT

2006-09-25 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, Here it is... http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2006-August/023912.html Regards Ming From: alayrac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: ML403 patch for UBOOT Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:21:43 +0200 I'm new member of this mailing

RE: ML403 patch for UBOOT

2006-09-25 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, So I wonder if the pacth is for UBOOT or Linux 2.6.17-4 kernel source? From the structure of the directory, you can see that obviously it is for the linux kernel. I should precise that I'm a beginner with Uboot and linux 2.6 (already port linux 2.4 on ML403 using BYU instructions) I must

flash operations in linux on ML403

2006-09-27 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Can anyone tell me, how to include the driver for flash chips on ML403 board and make the flash chip a visible device which could be written or read in Linux 2.6? I notice that there is a item called MTD in the device driver in the kernel menuconfig. Is that the driver for the flash

Re: booting 2.6 kernel on ML403

2006-10-06 Thread Ming Liu
Hi Pradeep, As soon as i apply the sysace driver and temac drivers and copy the xparameters_ml300.h (from EDK) to xparameters_ml403.h all i get is this... meaning kernel hangs after displaying Now booting the kernel. I have experienced this before. But in my condition, I applied both ACE

Re: how to reserve memory in linux?

2006-10-22 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Rahul, why do you think so ? Can't you give the physical address of the allocated memory from linux kernel to peripheral's DMA.? Unless you need to hardcode the physicall address i hope virt_to_phys(kmalloc_address) can be given to DMA. Sorry if i am still wrong in understanding your

Some questions about the Xilinx Temac driver.

2006-11-29 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Andrei, I have some questions about your xilinx Temac driver. If possible, please give me a hand on such confusing problems. 1. I am using the driver from http://source.mvista.com/~ank/paulus-powerpc/20060309/, and the IP cores of plb_temac and hard_temac whose hardware versions are

RE: RE : Some questions about the Xilinx Temac driver.

2006-12-01 Thread Ming Liu
kernel. Any other idea on how to implement such an EDK-generated BSP in the kernel like mine? Thanks for any suggestion. BR Ming From: alayrac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ming Liu' [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: RE : Some questions about the Xilinx Temac

Kernel hangs after Now booting the kernel if Xilinx plb_temac driver included

2006-12-07 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, I am trying to include the EDK-generated plb_temac driver in my 2.6.16 kernel tree. Before I include the new driver, I used the one from http://source.mvista.com/~ank/paulus-powerpc/20060309/ for the old plb_temac and hard_temac cores. There is no problem and the kernel could run

how to cross-compile netperf.

2006-12-11 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Maybe my question is not proper for this maillist but I really see some friends who are using netperf to measure the netowrk performance from this maillist. So I ask for help here. Could anyone please tell me how to cross-compile the Netperf which could be run on my PowerPC 405

Re: how to cross-compile netperf.

2006-12-11 Thread Ming Liu
this? thanks for your helping. BR Ming From: Wolfgang Grandegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: how to cross-compile netperf. Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:24:45 +0100 Ming Liu wrote: Dear all, Maybe my question is not proper

RE: how to cross compile 2.4.18

2007-01-18 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, Check the cmds provided by the installed cross-compiler. The cross-compiler cmd may looks like powerpc-...-gcc. Use this one instead of the normal gcc. Then the binary file is for your target platform. BR Ming From: patel nirav [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux ppc

RE: Profiler on PPC405 on Xilinx ML403

2007-02-02 Thread Ming Liu
in the kernel, or shall I install it from the beginning? My platform is ppc405 on ml403. Also I will appreciate a lot if you can make me sure that ppc405 is supported by Oprofile. I just see that only PPC64 is supported by Oprofile, without ppc405. BR Ming From: Ming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: ML403 Hard TEMAC, PLB and Linux 2.6

2007-02-08 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, In xapp902, they are using the old cores for Temac. So it will be easier to generate a project in EDK 8.2. Not only the cores there are new, but also it can generate the driver for linux 2.6. BR Ming From: Mohammad Sadegh Sadri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

RE: ML403 Hard TEMAC, PLB and Linux 2.6

2007-02-08 Thread Ming Liu
Hi Alayrac, Do you mean that you just copy Xilinx linux 2.6 BSP to Kernel.org source code directly? Or is it a pre patched kernel source tree? Could you also precise the kernel version? Yes. Just use the generated driver source code to overwrite the original one in the kernel source. Of

RE: Speed of plb_temac 3.00 on ML403

2007-02-09 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Rick, Again the problem of TEMAC speed. Hopefully you can give me some suggestion on that. With a 300Mhz system we saw about 730Mbps Tx with TCP on 2.4.20 (MontaVista Linux) and about 550Mbps Tx with TCP on 2.6.10 (MontaVista again) - using netperf w/ TCP_SENDFILE option. We didn't

RE: Speed of plb_temac 3.00 on ML403

2007-02-11 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Rick, First thank you SO SO SO MUCH for your kindly telling. It's really useful for me to solve problems. From the test summary listed, I can see that we have similar systems except that you are using MontaVista while I am using the general open-source kernel. Also I enabled all the

RE: Speed of plb_temac 3.00 on ML403

2007-02-11 Thread Ming Liu
] To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Speed of plb_temac 3.00 on ML403 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:57:15 +0100 (CET) On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Ming Liu wrote: Now with my system(plb_temac and hard_temac v3.00 with all features enabled to improve the performance, Linux 2.6.10

RE: Linux w/ML403 PLB TEMAC

2007-02-12 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Glenn, 3. The speed of the network was very poor. I wanted to implement DMA for the TEMAC. I created a new PPC with BSB using DMA on the TEMAC. Kernel recompilied without a problem, but upon starting the kernel I got: In fact, the old cores of TEMAC(plb_temac 2.00 hard_temac 1.00) also

RE: Speed of plb_temac 3.00 on ML403

2007-02-12 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Jozsef, on the contrary: our whole design is built on the principle that with UDP you do not need too much handling/processing, and your data path can bypass the IP stack, the CPU, and with some work even the main memory. with TCP you (the os) have to take care of connection set up and tear

RE: Speed of plb_temac 3.00 on ML403

2007-02-12 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Rick, Thanks for your kindly telling once more. :) GSRD is a reference design intended to exhibit high-performance gigabit rates. It offloads the data path of the Ethernet traffic from the PLB bus, under the assumption that the arbitrated bus is best used for other things (control, other

RE: How can I boot a program from flash on ML403?

2007-02-13 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, Pls refer to the ml403 user guide. There are several booting mechanisms including the common and useful one from CPLD+Flash for Linux application. BR Ming From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: How can I boot a program from flash on ML403? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007

RE: What is the difference between Montavista Kernel Source andKernel.Org Source

2007-02-18 Thread Ming Liu
Hi all, I want to know, what is the difference between the linux kernel source, that we download from source.mvista.com ( using git ) and the original kernel source code that we download from kernel.org? In fact, I have a same question. I also want to know what's the most obvious difference

RE: What is the difference between Montavista Kernel SourceandKernel.Org Source

2007-02-18 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Eric, Thanks for your reply first. Another question. Because Montavista kernel is also based on the open source linux kernel from the general tree, does this mean that the Montavista one is also open source and could be free to be distributed according to GPL. However as far as I know,

threshold and waitbound in adapter.c

2007-02-23 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Sorry for a basic question. What's the physical meaning for THRESHOLD and WAITBOUND in adapter.c in the driver of ethernet? I am trying to adjust these two parameters to achieve a higher performance of my network. Thanks for your telling. BR Ming

Re: a question on iowrite32()

2007-06-07 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Arnd, Since of_iomap() is rather new and hardly used by any drivers, we could still redefine it so that you would use iowrite32{,be}() instead of out_{be,le}32, but currently that doesn't work. So if I am correct, your suggestion is to use iowrite32be() in my device driver, right? However,

RE: ML403 gigabit ethernet bandwidth - 2.6 kernel

2007-06-23 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Mohammad, There are some parameters which could be adjusted to improve the performance. They are: TX and RX_Threshold TX and RX_waitbound. In my system, we use TX_Threshold=16 and Rx_Threshold=8 and both waitbound=1. Also Jumbo frame of 8982 could be enable. Try those hints and share your

RE: ML403 gigabit ethernet bandwidth - 2.6 kernel

2007-06-23 Thread Ming Liu
Use the following command in Linux please: ifconfig eth0 mtu 8982 As well you should do that on your PC in the measurement. Ming From: Mohammad Sadegh Sadri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ML403

RE: ML403 gigabit ethernet bandwidth - 2.6 kernel

2007-06-25 Thread Ming Liu
bandwidth - 2.6 kernel Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:10:16 + Use the following command in Linux please: ifconfig eth0 mtu 8982 As well you should do that on your PC in the measurement. Ming From: Mohammad Sadegh Sadri To: Ming Liu , ,, Subject: RE: ML403 gigabit ethernet

RE: ML403 gigabit ethernet bandwidth - 2.6 kernel

2007-06-26 Thread Ming Liu
Actually I have asked the xilinx expert on the statistics. With the PLB_TEMAC, we can also get a result like that, say 300Mbps for TCP. (From their numbers, the throughput is even higher.) Some remindings from my experience: Remember to enable everything in the hardware and software which can

RE: ML403 gigabit ethernet bandwidth - 2.6 kernel

2007-06-26 Thread Ming Liu
: ifconfig eth0 mtu 8982 As well you should do that on your PC in the measurement. Ming From: Mohammad Sadegh Sadri To: Ming Liu , ,, Subject: RE: ML403 gigabit ethernet bandwidth - 2.6 kernel Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:08:29 + Dear Ming

asm/*.h files missing for ppc arch.

2006-09-09 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Now I am trying to compile a driver module for my linux 2.6.16 kernel in ML403 with CPU arch Powerpc 405. But when I include linux/module.h, and then in module.h it includes linux/sched.h, and then in sched.h it includes asm/param.h and asm/semaphore.h and asm/mmu.h.., the

asm/*.h files missing for ppc arch.

2006-09-09 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Sorry that mmu.h is there. However ptrace.h, cputime.h and so on are not in asm-ppc/. Waiting for your telling... Regards Ming From: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: asm/*.h files missing for ppc arch. Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:05:27

asm/*.h files missing for ppc arch.

2006-09-09 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Josh, How are you compiling? For 4xx, you still need to specify ARCH=ppc with the make command. There is some makefile hackery that will then bring in header files from asm-powerpc as needed. In fact, I just try to compile the hello example in the book Linux Device Driver chapter 2. The

asm/*.h files missing for ppc arch.

2006-09-09 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Arnd, It's usually easier if you add your module to your copy of the kernel sources and build it along with all the other modules. How can I do that? I don't know how can I configure my driver and compile it as a module. Which option shall I choose to configure my driver as a module in

U-Boot on Xilinx ML403

2006-08-09 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Now I am trying to use u-boot to boot my Linux kernel image(2.6.16) using tftp and then mount the file system using NFS in ML403 board. I am new to u-boot. So can anyone suggest me some documents or reference designs about u-boot on ML403? I know there is a reference from Xilinx

U-boot on ML403

2006-08-10 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Frank, I know you are using U-boot on ML403 now. So can you say something about how to configure U-boot as ML403 board? I noticed that in U-boot 1.1.4, there is only ML300 supported. So if I want to configure the board as ML403 and some other customed options(e.g. no EEPROM), what shall I

U-boot on ML403

2006-08-11 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Frank, OK then. I have tried to find the patch. But I failed. So maybe it's better to contact Xilinx. Thanks for your help anyway. Regards Ming From: Frank D Lombardo lombardo at mdivac.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: U-boot

TEMAC problem on ML403 with U-boot.

2006-08-22 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Frank, In your ML403 design which is booted by U-boot, do you use the normal 10/100M Enet MAC or TEMAC? Is TEMAC supported by U-Boot 1.1.4? In my design I use TEMAC and it works well when I boot my Linux directly using Xilinx EDK bootloader. However it fails when using U-boot.. Thanks

help. a question on make menuconfig

2006-04-05 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, I am a novice for embendded linux. My platform is Xilinx Virtex4 (PPC405). I have downloaded the kernal source of linuxppc_2_4_devel and modified the Makefile as: ARCH := ppc CROSS_COMPILE = powerpc-405-linux-gnu- But when I execute make menuconfig, the following error happens, mingliu at

Gigabit ethernet support question about linux 2.6 on ML403 board

2006-05-22 Thread Ming Liu
Hello Andrei, I noticed that you are the owner of the Xilinx Virtex Development tree. Now I am trying to integrate a linux-xilinx-26 kernel in my ML403 Virtex 4 platform, with tri-mode (or gigabit) ethernet supported. In the menuconfig, I haven't found an option in Ethernet (1000 Mbit) to

Tri-mode or gigebit ethernet support problem in ML403

2006-05-23 Thread Ming Liu
Hi Grant, I want to ask you a problem about the 1000M ethernet support. Now I am trying to integrate a linux (2.4 or 2.6) in my ML403 platform, with tri-mode ethernet support. And I have downloaded many versions of linux, including linuxppc_2_4_devel, MontaVista linux 3.1 Preview

question about linux with Xilinx ML-403

2006-05-23 Thread Ming Liu
Hi Rick, Yes, we have a driver for the PLB TEMAC (different than the GSRD LL TEMAC) for Linux 2.4 (MontaVista Linux 2.4.20) that's shipped in EDK 8.1.1, and MontaVista is on the verge of publishing a driver for PLB TEMAC for Linux 2.6. (I believe it came across this mailing list a few weeks

question about linux with Xilinx ML-403

2006-05-23 Thread Ming Liu
Hi Rick, Yes, we have a driver for the PLB TEMAC (different than the GSRD LL TEMAC) for Linux 2.4 (MontaVista Linux 2.4.20) that's shipped in EDK 8.1.1, and MontaVista is on the verge of publishing a driver for PLB TEMAC for Linux 2.6. (I believe it came across this mailing list a few weeks

Tri-mode or gigebit ethernet support problem in ML403

2006-05-23 Thread Ming Liu
grant.likely at secretlab.ca To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Tri-mode or gigebit ethernet support problem in ML403 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 06:53:34 -0600 On 5/23/06, Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com wrote: Hi Grant, I want to ask you a problem

question about linux with Xilinx ML-403

2006-05-24 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Rick, First, thanks a lot for your information. However I still have something to ask. Our best recommendation is to use the drivers/net/xilinx_enet directory for the temac driver and just enable the Xilinx 10/100 Ethernet in menuconfig. I am not so clear with this. Do you mean that I

question about linux with Xilinx ML-403

2006-05-24 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Rick, OK. I will try that. However I cannot promise to finish this very soon because I am a novice. :) I will let you know if there is any result. Thanks for your method. BR Ming From: Rick Moleres rick.moleres at xilinx.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com, rick.moleres

question about linux with Xilinx ML-403

2006-05-24 Thread Ming Liu
supported in the following versions, I think. Regards Ming From: Rick Moleres rick.moleres at xilinx.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com, rick.moleres rick.moleres at xilinx.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: RE: question about linux with Xilinx ML-403 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12

a problem of kernel-module version mismatch.

2006-06-08 Thread Ming Liu
Hello everyone, Now I am trying to cross-compile the driver for a customed FIFO peripheral in my design. My embedded platform is Xilinx ML403 development board (Virtex4) and the host linux is suse 64-bit. I use the cross-compiler to compile the driver source files provided by Xilinx EDK. But

a problem of kernel-module version mismatch.

2006-06-08 Thread Ming Liu
Thanks for your telling first. The easiest way is usually to put the driver in your source tree and compile everything together. That also makes it easier to distribute the complete source tree to your users. Sorry that I am a novice in Linux. I don't know how can I put the driver in my source

a problem of kernel-module version mismatch.

2006-06-08 Thread Ming Liu
question, I will ask you again. Thanks a lot for your help. Regards Ming From: Arnd Bergmann arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: a problem of kernel-module version mismatch. Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:25:37 +0200

a problem of kernel-module version mismatch.

2006-06-09 Thread Ming Liu
could recognize these two symbols? Waiting for your help. Thanks a lot. Any information about this problem is also appreciated. Regards Ming From: Arnd Bergmann arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: a problem of kernel

a problem of kernel-module version mismatch.

2006-06-09 Thread Ming Liu
question, I will ask you again. Thanks a lot for your help. Regards Ming From: Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: a problem of kernel-module version mismatch. Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:25:37 +0200

a problem of kernel-module version mismatch.

2006-06-09 Thread Ming Liu
and output 32-bit data? When we define XIo_In32 and XIo_Out32 as them, which is we use out_le32 and in_le32 to input and output data, they are still not resolvable. Any other suggestions? Thanks a lot. Regards Ming From: Arnd Bergmann arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC

Xilinx SystemACE driver for 2.6

2006-06-30 Thread Ming Liu
Hello Ameet, Do you have a Xilinx ML403 board? Yes, I have ML403 board. The reason why I rename the xparameters_ml300 as xparameters_ml403 is that EDK generates the driver for ML300(the xparameter header file is xparameters_ml300). Does your kernel boot (show messages) without the SystemACE

Xilinx SystemACE driver for 2.6

2006-06-30 Thread Ming Liu
Yes. I noticed that in the original demo Linux of MontaVista shipped by Xilinx for ML403, there is no swap partition. Regards Ming From: Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca To: Ameet Patil ammubhai at gmail.com CC: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com, linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org

Xilinx BSP for linux 2.6

2006-07-06 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Ameet, Now I am using your patch for SystemACE in Linux 2.6. My linux version is 2.6.16-rc5 and I have applied the patch for SystemACE and Temac. When I generate BSP in EDK, how can I implement it in my linux kernel? I know the EDK BSP is for Linux 2.4 and the directory stucture is the

Xilinx BSP for linux 2.6

2006-07-06 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Ameet, I DONOT have a ML403 with me. But does Xilinx EDK generate xparameters_ml300.h in the BSP instead of xparameters_ml403.h for the ML403 board? Yes. EKD only generates ml300.h instead of ml403.h, although you specify the platform is ML403. You need to just copy the

Xilinx BSP for linux 2.6

2006-07-07 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Ameet, A good news is that now my 2.6 kernel is running in my ML403 board! According your guidance, first I made the kernel as simple as possible and it works well. Then I included the patch for SystemACE and here is the information shown on the hyper teminal: Linux/PPC load:

Xilinx BSP for linux 2.6

2006-07-07 Thread Ming Liu
? Thanks in advance. Regards Ming From: Ameet Patil ammubhai at gmail.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Xilinx BSP for linux 2.6 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:42:42 +0100 Hi Ming, Excellent News! Don't worry... the problem you are facing could

Kernel hangs after Now booting the kernel.

2006-07-08 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Ameet, I really feel so sorry to take away much time from you. However, there are really so many strange problems for my system. I tried to implement the Temac option and recompiled the kernel. Then when I boot the kernel from CF card, after the information Now booting the kernel, it

some problems on the SystemACE driver.

2006-07-11 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Ameet, Sorry to bother you again but I am totally confused on the systemACE driver. First let me show you the problem. 1. I downloaded the linux kernel of 2.6.17.1, also the patch for SystemACE driver. Applied the patch to the kernel. Replaced the xparameters_ml403.h with the generated

some problems on the SystemACE driver.

2006-07-12 Thread Ming Liu
suggestion, please feel free to announce. Thanks for both your help. Regards Ming From: Ameet Patil ammubhai at gmail.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: some problems on the SystemACE driver. Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:54:13 +0100 Hi Ming, I

some problems on the SystemACE driver.

2006-07-13 Thread Ming Liu
? If yes, please tell me a.s.a.p. and I am anxious for testing it. Regards Ming From: Ameet Patil ammubhai at gmail.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: akonovalov at ru.mvista.com, linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: some problems on the SystemACE driver. Date: Wed, 12 Jul

Xilinx hard TEMAC

2006-07-14 Thread Ming Liu
Hi David, The hardware I have to support is the Hard TEMAC on the LocalLink Bus. It is my understanding that this is the TEMAC builtin to the FX parts, not one that is created in the FPGA. That's right. The hard Temac is a built-in hard core in virtex 4 FPGA. Is anyone else working to support

some problems on the SystemACE driver.

2006-07-14 Thread Ming Liu
to export C_INCLUDE_PATH=../driver/xilinx_edk. Thanks for your work. Regards Ming From: Ameet Patil ammubhai at gmail.com To: Ming Liu eemingliu at hotmail.com CC: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: some problems on the SystemACE driver. Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:12:36 +0100 Hi

some problems on the SystemACE driver.

2006-07-14 Thread Ming Liu
? If I made a wrong operation, please forgive me because I am a novice. That's why I would like to describe the procedure as detailed as possible. Also, please check it again to solve the problem. Thanks for your hard work. Regards Ming From: Ameet Patil ammubhai at gmail.com To: Ming Liu

some problems on the SystemACE driver.

2006-07-16 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Ameet, Good news! This time, it works well and no error during the compilation process. Finally we solved this sucking problem! Congratulations to us! I have tried the kernel. It works well for the SystemACE driver, although I have not successfully made Temac work well. It shows that the

SystemAce Driver.

2006-07-24 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/rtslab/demos/amos/xupv2pro/patches/linuxppc-2.6.17.1-sysace-1.2-after-TEMAC.patch This is one which could work well with Temac driver. Regards Ming From: Raja Chidambaram raja_chidambaram82 at yahoo.com To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: RE:SystemAce

Xilinx SystemACE driver for 2.6

2006-06-30 Thread Ming Liu
Hi friend, I have tried your patch for SystemACE. Unfortunately, it looks that I got some problem. I applied the patch and compile the kernel. There are some XPAR_... parameters defination missing. So I include the xpamameters header file( I use the xparameters_ml300 which was generated by EDK

TEMAC support of Uboot on ML403

2007-08-08 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Does anyone know that whether U-boot can support Xilinx TEMAC core to tftp the Linux kernel or not. In my design I am using TEMAC instead of the normal enet. While I found that in the Xilinx u-boot tree, there is only a directory for xilinx_enet instead of xilinx_temac. I am not sure

RE: TEMAC support of Uboot on ML403

2007-08-08 Thread Ming Liu
and sharing your experience. BR Ming From: Sharon Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: TEMAC support of Uboot on ML403 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:11:22 +0300 YES IT DOES WORK WITH TEMAC. YOU NEED TO MAKE THE RIGHT ADAPTATIONS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

basic and stupid question on wait_event and wake_up

2007-08-12 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, I am reading LDD(V3) chapter 6 on the topic of wait_event(queue, condition) and wake_up(queue) functions. I am quite confused on the sayings. One is Until condition evaluates to a true value, the process continues to sleep, which looks like that 'condition' is the one who wake up the

Re: basic and stupid question on wait_event and wake_up

2007-08-13 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Domen, Thanks for your reply first. I understand it this way: - condition Just checking the condition is one way (if you don't have a wake_up source, like an interrupt), but that's not really what wait_event does. It would be something like while (condition) {

Re: basic and stupid question on wait_event and wake_up

2007-08-13 Thread Ming Liu
Thank you so much for your explanation. Now I am quite clear on this topic. Domen, Sorry for my misspelling of your name. That should be Domen not Momen. Sorry for that. :) BR Ming From: Domen Puncer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject

how to get your linux-2.6-virtex tree?

2007-08-25 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Grant, I am trying to get your linux-2.6-virtex tree. When I release the command git-clone git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6-virtex.git, it shows fatal: unexpected EOF fetch-pack from 'git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6-virtex.git' failed. How can I get your tree? Thanks for your

Re: how to get your linux-2.6-virtex tree?

2007-08-25 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Grant, What does 'dig git.secretlab.ca' tell you? I see this: ;; ANSWER SECTION: git.secretlab.ca. 1320IN A 208.123.74.12 I released 'dig git.secretlab.ca' and saw this: ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;git.secretlab.ca. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION:

Re: how to get your linux-2.6-virtex tree?

2007-08-25 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Grant, That's right!!! My git's version is quite old. OK then. Thus I will upgrade my git and obtain your kernel tree. Thanks for your help. BR Ming From: Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: how to get your linux-2.6

NFS failed in linux-2.6-virtex tree for xilinx ML403

2007-08-26 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Grant, I am bringing up your linux-2.6-virtex tree. However the following problem happened: eth0: XTemac: speed set to 1000Mb/s eth0: XTemac: Send Threshold = 16, Receive Threshold = 2 eth0: XTemac: Send Wait bound = 1, Receive Wait bound = 1 IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0,

RE: Newbie and linux on virtex-II ppc

2007-08-27 Thread Ming Liu
Dear Georg, is it possible to run a kernel that way ? or need i some kind of bootloader ? or is this complete the wrong way ? Yes, you can. Actually what I did is to include a bootloop in the hardware bitstream and that will keep your CPU waiting until the kernel's running. BR Ming

Does gcc compiler support PowerPC 405 APU Instruction Set Extension?

2007-09-16 Thread Ming Liu
Dear all, Is there anyone who knows, whether the cross-assember powerpc-405-linux-gnu-as can support and decode the instructions from the APU (auxiliary processing unit) extensive instruction set? For example the APU pre-defined instructions such as ldfcmx or stdfcmx, and so on. If the answer

RE: Ethernet adapter not found in Xilinx ppc, with linux 2.6.22

2007-09-18 Thread Ming Liu
Hi, After several days of struggling I'm now able to boot the linux 2.6.22 and run the busybox-1.7.1 root system. Yet I could not find the Ethernet adapter using Xilinx GMAC core. Pretty sure that I've chosen the 10/100 Ethernet drivers. Should I use the Xilinx driver xemac, or other drivers,