Re: arch/powerpc for lite5200b

2007-04-24 Thread Domen Puncer
On 24/04/07 17:01 +0530, Pradyumna Sampath wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have been trying to get the linux-2.6.20-rt3 for arch/powerpc to > boot on my lite5200b. Here are the things that I have tried so far. I > have a custom board based on the lite5200b and then the evaluation > board too. > > - I

RE: PTE entries

2007-04-24 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:34 -0700, Siva Prasad wrote: > Thanks Ben. > > I managed to fix this. I am working on how best we can rewrite the self > modifying code we have for create_hpte routine. I would prefer to read > from SDR1, than to hardcode (or self modify the code) the way it is done > now.

RE: PTE entries

2007-04-24 Thread Siva Prasad
Thanks Ben. I managed to fix this. I am working on how best we can rewrite the self modifying code we have for create_hpte routine. I would prefer to read from SDR1, than to hardcode (or self modify the code) the way it is done now. Feel free to let me know what you think. Thanks Siva -Ori

Ramdisk Vs NFS

2007-04-24 Thread Siva Prasad
Hi, What is the primary difference between Ramdisk and NFS with respect to the wait_queue's? If I use ramdisk, every thing works fine, but with NFS (or you may read as 'no ramdisk') kernel/sched.c:__wake_up_common() routines has a problem. Basically the value of "&q->task_list->next" is out of ou

Re: [PATCH] Xilinx framebuffer device driver

2007-04-24 Thread Arnd Bergmann
> +   .activate = FB_ACTIVATE_NOW, > +   .height =   99, /* in mm of NEC NL6448BC20-08 on ML300 */ > +   .width =132 /* in mm of NEC NL6448BC20-08 on ML300 */ > +}; The size looks very specific to a particular display hardware. I guess when the driver gets conve

Re: [PATCH] Xilinx framebuffer device driver

2007-04-24 Thread Grant Likely
On 4/24/07, Andrei Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add support for the video controller IP block included into Xilinx ML300 and > ML403 reference designs. > > Signed-off-by: Andrei Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > This patch relies on the "Patchset to establish sanity in Xilinx Virtex

Re: 2.6 Kernel , Xilinx Virtex and PPC 405 On chip memory controllers ( DSOCM and ISOCM )

2007-04-24 Thread Grant Likely
On 4/24/07, Mohammad Sadegh Sadri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then in mailing list I saw some where that AVNET mini-modules are using a > version of FX12 FPGA which has problem with PPC caches and as the solution > the caches should be off. > > Does the kernel always turns on the caches? Or If

Re: zImage.elf loads but does not start

2007-04-24 Thread Andrei Konovalov
AFAICT, the TEMAC device has not been registered on the platform bus. You should add this stuff to arch/ppc/syslib/virtex_devices.c (if you use the recent patches by Grant Likely). xtemac_g.c is not used in 2.6 TEMAC driver(s I have seen). Thanks, Andrei Mirek23 wrote: > Thanks for the suggestio

RE: zImage.elf loads but does not start

2007-04-24 Thread Mirek23
Thanks for the suggestions. I have changed the command line argument: console:ttl0 -> ttyUL0 and kernel has booted up to the point to mount the root file system. I have set up the kernel to mount the root file systems via the nfs. I have started the nfs server on the remote pc. Unfortunately t

RE: 2.6 Kernel , Xilinx Virtex and PPC 405 On chip memory controllers ( DSOCM and ISOCM )

2007-04-24 Thread Mohammad Sadegh Sadri
Then in mailing list I saw some where that AVNET mini-modules are using a version of FX12 FPGA which has problem with PPC caches and as the solution the caches should be off. Does the kernel always turns on the caches? Or If I choose in the base system builder to not to use caches, the kernel

Re: Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4

2007-04-24 Thread Lorenz Kolb
> Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:58:13 +0400 > From: Andrei Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4 > To: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; cha

Re: 2.6 Kernel , Xilinx Virtex and PPC 405 On chip memory controllers ( DSOCM and ISOCM )

2007-04-24 Thread Grant Likely
On 4/24/07, Mohammad Sadegh Sadri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what about the cache? > Does the current kernel use the cache efficiently? Yes, the caches work and are turned on by the kernel. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 399-0195

Re: ML403, root=/dev/xsa3 rw, bonnie++

2007-04-24 Thread Grant Likely
On 4/24/07, Andrei Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Grant, > > I've discovered the IBM Microdrive fits perfectly into the ML403 CF slot :) > So I've repeated the bonnie++ stress test on ML403 with the hard disk. > The log is below. > The test completed OK, but there was one message from th

RE: 2.6 Kernel , Xilinx Virtex and PPC 405 On chip memory controllers ( DSOCM and ISOCM )

2007-04-24 Thread Mohammad Sadegh Sadri
what about the cache? Does the current kernel use the cache efficiently? > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:55:48 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 2.6 Kernel , Xilinx Virtex and PPC 405 On chip memory > controllers ( DSOC

Re: [PATCH] Xilinx framebuffer device driver

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Mendham
Andrei Konovalov wrote: > Add support for the video controller IP block included into Xilinx > ML300 and > ML403 reference designs. > > Signed-off-by: Andrei Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > This patch relies on the "Patchset to establish sanity in Xilinx > Virtex support" by Gran Likely t

Re: 2.6 Kernel , Xilinx Virtex and PPC 405 On chip memory controllers ( DSOCM and ISOCM )

2007-04-24 Thread Grant Likely
On 4/24/07, Mohammad Sadegh Sadri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > suppose that in my base system I have included 8kbytes of memory for DS OCM > and 8K for IS OCM, > I have generated the proper xparameters.h and copied it into kernel > > Now I want to know if kernel will use this portion of memory d

Re: Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Mendham
Andrei Konovalov wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: >> On 4/24/07, Peter Mendham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I am wanting to use the Xilinx TFT controller from the ML403/5 >>> reference >>> project (probably from ML300 as well) under a 2.6.20.4 kernel. I have >>> Grant Likely's pat

[PATCH] Xilinx framebuffer device driver

2007-04-24 Thread Andrei Konovalov
Add support for the video controller IP block included into Xilinx ML300 and ML403 reference designs. Signed-off-by: Andrei Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch relies on the "Patchset to establish sanity in Xilinx Virtex support" by Gran Likely to have the frame buffer device registere

Re: Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4

2007-04-24 Thread Andrei Konovalov
Grant Likely wrote: > On 4/24/07, Peter Mendham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am wanting to use the Xilinx TFT controller from the ML403/5 reference >> project (probably from ML300 as well) under a 2.6.20.4 kernel. I have >> Grant Likely's patchset applied in which there is a pla

Re: Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Mendham
Grant Likely wrote: > Heh, I've got a driver. I just haven't published it yet. Give me a > few days... Fantastic. I'm happy to be on the front line of alpha testing if that's any help. No worries with a few day's delay though, I'm trying to fit the TFT controller into with my design with a T

Re: zImage.elf loads but does not start

2007-04-24 Thread Mirek23
Thanks for the suggestions. I have changed the command line argument: console:ttl0 -> ttyUL0 and kernel has booted up to the point to mount the root file system. I have set up the kernel to mount the root file systems via the nfs. I have started the nfs server on the remote pc. Unfortunately the

Re: Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4

2007-04-24 Thread Grant Likely
On 4/24/07, Peter Mendham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am wanting to use the Xilinx TFT controller from the ML403/5 reference > project (probably from ML300 as well) under a 2.6.20.4 kernel. I have > Grant Likely's patchset applied in which there is a platform device > entry for th

2.6 Kernel , Xilinx Virtex and PPC 405 On chip memory controllers ( DSOCM and ISOCM )

2007-04-24 Thread Mohammad Sadegh Sadri
Hi all, Just a very simple question about the 2.6 kerenl, suppose that in my base system I have included 8kbytes of memory for DS OCM and 8K for IS OCM, I have generated the proper xparameters.h and copied it into kernel Now I want to know if kernel will use this portion of memory during it's

arch/powerpc for lite5200b

2007-04-24 Thread Pradyumna Sampath
Hi Everyone, I have been trying to get the linux-2.6.20-rt3 for arch/powerpc to boot on my lite5200b. Here are the things that I have tried so far. I have a custom board based on the lite5200b and then the evaluation board too. - I have a working 2.6.16-rt29 kernel compiled using ARCH=ppc for bot

Re: MPC885 hang in a lwarx/stwcx insn crossing a page boundary

2007-04-24 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 07:55 +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote: > Hello, > > I have a MPC885 and a running 2.6.16 kernel on it. I use the CPU15 > Errata Patch from > (http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-April/033789.html) > > Now if a lwarx/stwcx insn crossing a page boundary, the CPU hangs in

Using Xilinx Framebuffer on ML405 and 2.6.20.4

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Mendham
Dear all, I am wanting to use the Xilinx TFT controller from the ML403/5 reference project (probably from ML300 as well) under a 2.6.20.4 kernel. I have Grant Likely's patchset applied in which there is a platform device entry for the framebuffer. Does anyone know if there is mainline suppor