Re: ml310 kernel2.6 booting problems

Oops.  I should have looked at git.xilinx.com.  I've been using
secretlab's for a while and I saw xilinx site come up but never
took the time to investigate.  Even if it not mainline suitable
code and 2.6.10-era, I would be interested.  I'll explore in my
free time over the next couple of weeks and see what I can figure
out.

Thanks for the speedy response!

Ron

Ron,

It might be better to start with the kernel from git.xilinx.com, which
already has an ML41x option.  The current version of EDK will also
generate support for ML410 with the PCI driver, if you are still using a
2.6.10-era kernel. =20

I've refrained putting the PCI stuff on git.xilinx.com, because any
non-trivial usage of it that I've tried has generated warnings.  On top
of that, the code has some interrupt values hardcoded in the ALI
southbridge code.  Since there is no way to have this code pushed into
mainline, I'm not terribly interested in encouraging any work on it,
either.  Perhaps since there is so much interest in this code, someone
would like to get it working in ARCH=3Dpowerpc?  I'm happy to provide =
some
handholding to get someone started.

Steve

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bounces+stephen=3Dneuendorffer.name@ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Ron Sass
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 4:11 PM
To: Jean-Samuel Chenard
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ml310 kernel2.6 booting problems
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Hello All,
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I have a sidewise question related to this thread.  We have
several ML-310 and ML-410 boards.  At some point, we may need
PCI but right now it is not urgent so I am not ready to invest
a lot of time yet either.  I imagine that 2.6 + PCI would be
relatively similiar for both ML-310 and ML-410...
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My question is this:  Would it make sense to have a Kernel
configuration something like "VIRTEX_PCI" and a platforms
"XILINX_ML4xx" / "XILINX_ML3xx" ... or create four platforms:
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  XILINX_ML300
  XILINX_ML310
  XILINX_ML40x
  XILINX_ML410
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I ask now because we are working on some device drivers for
the ML410 that may work on 40x and I wondering if I should
introduce a new ML410 platform option...
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Ron
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:19:04 +0100
From: Joachim Meyer
Hmmm... I'm not really ready to invest that much time into the PCI

for ML=3D

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http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2007-December/029211.html

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How much work would it be (approximated), and do you think I can

success =3D

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(I'm a novice, like you know)?

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Would you help me (Tell me where to start & what to do)?

Hi Joachim,

I was also interested in getting the PCI to run on the ML-310.  I

did

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spend an evening trying to integrate a patch sent over by Stephen
Neuendorffer from Xilinx.  I managed to get everything to compile
(basically I fixed a few missing macros and had to search a bit to
ensure that the memory mapping was correctly ported).

Unfortunately,

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when I tried the new kernel, I think that I must have messed

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up with the interrupt mappings (I am a newbie to PCI) and I had to
remove some interrupt mapping from Stephen's patch.

In any case, my ML-310 was booting the Linux kernel, but something

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not right and I did not get anymore printouts from the UART Lite.
Since I don't have the JTAG cable, I was stuck at this point with
little means to debug the system.  One day I'll spoil myself with

one

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of those platform JTAG USB cables...

I used Z-modem to transfer files to/from my workstation to my CF

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on the ML-310 and this was an acceptable compromise.

I'd still be interested in having the PCI bus working on the ML-310,
but now that I got my BEE2 booting Linux 2.6, its not such a big
priority for me.  Let me know if you have some success in that
direction.

Regards,

Jean-Samuel
-- =3D

Integrated Microsystems Laboratory
McGill University, Montr=3DE9al, QC, CANADA
Web Page: http://chaos.ece.mcgill.ca
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