On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Beniamino Galvani <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jakub, > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 05:32:58PM +0100, Jakub Jermar wrote: >> > The UART driver was copied from ARM926 with minor changes and I think >> > that we should evaluate if it's possible to merge the two. The next >> > steps should consists in improving some parts (like interrupts >> > handling and system timer), cleaning the code and in the future maybe >> > adding support for USB, ethernet or external display. >> >> I have just tried to look if we could merge this, but it looks like the >> renaming of the ARM926 stuff to PL011 will break the ARM926. Can you >> confirm this? Has there been any conclusion as to whether some drivers >> could indeed be merged? If no, I would still prefer to have both >> drivers, the arm926 uart and pl011. > > While renaming arm926 UART driver to PL011, references to it must be > updated in the arm926 code to avoid to break compilation, but this > should be straightforward. > > This is what I did in the Raspberry branch (merge the two drivers and > replace references), and I also did some small modifications to the > driver to let it work on the Raspberry. I could not test if the arm926 > was still working after that due to lack of hardware.
If I'm not mistaken the only ARM926 device we currently support is qemu integratorcp, it's included in the upstream qemu so testing should be straightforward. jan > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bengal/helenos/raspberrypi/revision/1776 > > Beniamino > > _______________________________________________ > HelenOS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.modry.cz/listinfo/helenos-devel _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/listinfo/helenos-devel
