On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Cyril Plisko<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ?

For at least some of the things, yes (I can't comment on all the
components as I haven't messed with every sort of driver).
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