Status of 5200B and 440 Kernel Support

Hi all,

sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm new in the list...

For a new project, I am looking through the available PPC based SoC's.   
Good candidates are probably the Freescale 5200B or the AMCC 440EP (I  
need a FPU).

For a decision, I need some further information about the Kernel  
support (source code available, if possible in stock kernels, *not*  
only vendor binary modules!) of the included devices, in particular
- MTD/NAND controller
- Ethernet
- UART, IIC and SPI
- USB host
- local external bus (not PCI) DMA

Any information or pointers would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Albrecht.

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:17:39 +0100
Albrecht Dre=C3=9F [off-list ref] wrote:

For a decision, I need some further information about the Kernel =20
support (source code available, if possible in stock kernels, *not* =20
only vendor binary modules!) of the included devices, in particular

For 440EP in arch/powerpc:

- MTD/NAND controller

NOR flash works.  NAND needs some additional code.

- Ethernet

Works.

- UART, IIC and SPI

UART works.  IIC has recent patches.  No idea about SPI.

- USB host

Works.

- local external bus (not PCI) DMA

DMA to the EBC for what?

josh

Hi Josh,

thanks a lot for your answers!

Am 24.02.08 14:38 schrieb(en) Josh Boyer:

quoted

- MTD/NAND controller

NOR flash works.  NAND needs some additional code.

Hmm - does it mean it's currently under development?  I couldn't find  
anything in make xconfig for stock 2.6.24 (running on a PowerMac, but  
of course with the 44x enabled).

UART works.  IIC has recent patches.  No idea about SPI.

SPI is probably not too hard.  I did some hacks for a slave in an  
arm920 based environment for that.  Here I would need master mode, so I  
guess some of the infrastructure form drivers/spi can be used.

quoted

- local external bus (not PCI) DMA

DMA to the EBC for what?

To load data from an external measurement device which should be  
connected to the cpu's external bus at a fixed address.  It will  
produce "bursts" which should be shifted out of it without cpu  
intervention if possible, as it does not have a big fifo, and I must  
not lose data.

Thanks,
Albrecht.

Upon building the default Sequoia (AMCC-440EPx) configuration, the 
MODPOST step warns about section mismatches:
    WARNING: modpost: Found 5 section mismatch(es).
    To see full details build your kernel with:
    'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'

After using the