Hello,
I'm just started working on some mvme5100 boards, and so I discovered
that support for these cards has been dropped with linux-2.6.27 due to
lack of interest. Here is the relevent post on linuxppc-embedded:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org/msg30049.html
Well, I'd really like to see support for the mvme5100 to be reintegrated
in the kernel. I'm willing to help on this, but at the moment I don't
know how much work is to be done, as I don't know how the switch from
ppc to powerpc changed things.
If anybody of you is interested please drop me an email.
Thank you,
Paride
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:39:35PM +0000, Paride Legovini wrote:
Hello,
I'm just started working on some mvme5100 boards, and so I discovered
that support for these cards has been dropped with linux-2.6.27 due to
lack of interest. Here is the relevent post on linuxppc-embedded:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org/msg30049.html
Well, I'd really like to see support for the mvme5100 to be reintegrated
in the kernel. I'm willing to help on this, but at the moment I don't
know how much work is to be done, as I don't know how the switch from
ppc to powerpc changed things.
A lot, these are PreP platforms. I'm using several MVME24xx/26xx/27xx
here (some have been running continously over a decade). They have
a lot of similarities with MVME5100 if I remember correctly.
I don't have time right now (especially if I am alone) to write
support for them, but I am interested in running a more recent
kernel, provided it's not too bloated (some machines only have
16MB of RAM).
Regards,
Gabriel
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:21:16PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:39:35PM +0000, Paride Legovini wrote:
quoted
Hello,
I'm just started working on some mvme5100 boards, and so I discovered
that support for these cards has been dropped with linux-2.6.27 due to
lack of interest. Here is the relevent post on linuxppc-embedded:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org/msg30049.html
Well, I'd really like to see support for the mvme5100 to be reintegrated
in the kernel. I'm willing to help on this, but at the moment I don't
know how much work is to be done, as I don't know how the switch from
ppc to powerpc changed things.
A lot, these are PreP platforms. I'm using several MVME24xx/26xx/27xx
here (some have been running continously over a decade). They have
a lot of similarities with MVME5100 if I remember correctly.
I don't have time right now (especially if I am alone) to write
support for them, but I am interested in running a more recent
kernel, provided it's not too bloated (some machines only have
16MB of RAM).
This is quite discouraging, I think I'll just keep using linux-2.6.26.8,
the last kernel supporting the mvme5100 (afaik). I'd like to work on
a patch for newer kernels, but I have to finish a project in a
reasonable time, so unfortunately I can't start studying these kernel
internals now. Anyway, if you'll feel like working on it tell me, I'll
be happy to help.
Paride