Dear Detlev Zundel, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > Not quite. A quick check reveals that the bcm7038 is a r5000 based > mips64 bit at heart (I'm a little confused here, there seem to be also > 32bit r5000?). So not only will you be doing a new cpu port (level 2), > but really a new architecture , i.e. mips64 - so you enter the game at > level 3 ;)
That's not quite correct. IIRC, the "purple" board also uses a 64bit MIPS processor (5Kc). So it's "just" anothe rnew board port. > So very likely you should start out by creating cpu/mips64. In here > should go everything which is general enough to also be of use for the > next mips64 ports that come along. I think this is not compulsory. > > Would someone be able to assist me in porting to this cpu/board? > > I'm not sure whether you fill find a single person, but I'm sure that > the mailing list as such will at least try to point you in the right > direction. And of course there is a number of companies who are specialized in performing such ports, um... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] "There is nothing so deadly as not to hold up to people the opportunity to do great and wonderful things, if we wish to stimulate them in an active way." - Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
