On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Jason King<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Cyril Plisko<[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jason King<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Mark Martin<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Now that the cat is out of the bag on the ARM port, it's time to see what >>>> hardware platforms we can try running on. Is anyone working on, or >>>> interested in working on, drivers for some of the prevalent ARM platforms? >>>> I'm noting that 88F6281 fairly commonly found and inexpensive (QNAP, >>>> SheevaPlug, etc). QNAP has expressed interest in supporting a porting >>>> project, so now would be a good time to think about making sure we have >>>> core >>>> driver support. It'd be nice if we knew what might be in the pipeline from >>>> this Sun/NEC collaboration (hint hint). >>> >>> The question is, are the companies involved willing to release the >>> needed specs (or are they already available online)? While we could >>> probably port any equivalent drivers from one of the BSD variants >>> (where those drivers exist), having the specs would be better. >> >> http://www.marvell.com/files/products/embedded_processors/kirkwood/HW_88F6281_OpenSource.pdf >> >> 140 pages worth of hardware manual. Not sure whether it is enough or >> not though. I do not have the actual hardware... > > It looks like that'd be more useful for someone designing a MB to put > the chip in than those looking to provide OS support. It doesn't seem > to have any details on (for example): programming the two gige > interfaces (I'd be looking for things like register descriptions, > descriptor layouts, etc.), the crypto engine, sata controller, etc. >
http://www.marvell.com/files/products/embedded_processors/kirkwood/FS_88F6180_9x_6281_OpenSource.pdf Any better ? -- Regards, Cyril _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
