Re: The question about the high memory support on MPC8360?

2007-11-27 Thread vijay baskar
Hi, "The kernel also allows hardcoded mapping of IO regions into its virtual address space through the io_block_mapping interface." Can u tell me how this is in current arch/powerpc. Also does it mean that whatever be the size of the ram > 768 MB there is not going to be much improvement in perf

Re: Unable to Read PPC440EPx Board ID thru Board Control and Status Registers (BCSR)

2007-11-27 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:47:45 -0800 (PST) Dell Query <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am creating a simple program which will try to read the board ID of the > PPC440EPx thru BCSR but when I load it, it gives me "Data Read PLB Error". > > I am not sure if I missed out something. > > I wo

Re: Xilinx devicetrees

2007-11-27 Thread John Williams
Stephen Neuendorffer wrote: >>From: John Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>MicroBlaze is a highly configurable CPU in terms of its >>instruction set, >>features and so on. To make use of this, it is essential that each >>kernel image be compiled to match the CPU configuration. While a >

RE: Xilinx devicetrees

2007-11-27 Thread Stephen Neuendorffer
> -Original Message- > From: John Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:55 PM > To: Stephen Neuendorffer > Cc: David H. Lynch Jr.; linuxppc-embedded; Michal Simek > Subject: Re: Xilinx devicetrees > > > MicroBlaze is a highly configurable CPU in terms

Re: Xilinx devicetrees

2007-11-27 Thread Grant Likely
On 11/27/07, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Stephen Neuendorffer wrote: > > > >Binding it to a kernel, is a non-starter for us. > > > > I agree that this is not the best way of leveraging the power of device > > trees. The point is that by using a device tree, you ha

Re: Xilinx devicetrees

2007-11-27 Thread John Williams
Hi folks, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote: > >Binding it to a kernel, is a non-starter for us. > > I agree that this is not the best way of leveraging the power of device > trees. The point is that by using a device tree, you haven't lost > anything you can do currently. In the future we mig

Re: 85xx software reset problems from paulus.git

2007-11-27 Thread Dale Farnsworth
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:26:59AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > >I wrote: > >>Kumar Gala wrote: > >Yes. The symptoms in 2.6.24RC2 are that during a kernel panic or > >when > >calling 'reboot' in the shell, it just hangs. Using the sa

Unable to Read PPC440EPx Board ID thru Board Control and Status Registers (BCSR)

2007-11-27 Thread Dell Query
Hi, I am creating a simple program which will try to read the board ID of the PPC440EPx thru BCSR but when I load it, it gives me "Data Read PLB Error". I am not sure if I missed out something. I would really appreciate it if somebody could help me on this. I have posted the source code below

Re: Debugging with gdbserver slow

2007-11-27 Thread khollan
Fixed. It turns out it was because I'm using VMWare to run Linux on my windows computer. I booted up Linux natively and it stepped through code very fast even in multi threaded apps. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Debugging-with-gdbserver-slow-tf4846374.html#a13980499

Re: SPI driver for spi_mpc83xx

2007-11-27 Thread Ben Warren
Fabio, Note: I've changed the e-mail subject back to the original. In the future, please ensure that it remains intact. fabio777 wrote: > Thanks Ben, > > Here it is > > static struct fsl_spi_platform_data k_platform_data = { > .initial_spmode = 0, > .bus_num = 1, Probably should be bus_num = 0 >

Re: Linuxppc-embedded Digest, Vol 39, Issue 48

2007-11-27 Thread fabio777
Thanks Ben, Here it is static struct fsl_spi_platform_data k_platform_data = { .initial_spmode = 0, .bus_num = 1, .max_chipselect = 1, /* board specific information */ .activate_cs = k_cs_activate, .deactivate_cs = k_cs_deactivate, .sysclk =266, }; static struct spi_b

Re: 85xx software reset problems from paulus.git

2007-11-27 Thread Kumar Gala
On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > I wrote: >> Kumar Gala wrote: > Yes. The symptoms in 2.6.24RC2 are that during a kernel panic or > when > calling 'reboot' in the shell, it just hangs. Using the same dts > and > resets in 2.6.23.1 reboots fine. I don't

Re: The question about the high memory support on MPC8360?

2007-11-27 Thread Scott Wood
vijay baskar wrote: > The kernel maps the last 1 GB of the virtual address space one to one > to the physical memory. No, it maps 768MB of RAM in this manner. > This is called the kernel space. After the one > to one mapping is done for the available physical memory, the > remaining virtual addre

Re: 85xx software reset problems from paulus.git

2007-11-27 Thread Dale Farnsworth
I wrote: > Kumar Gala wrote: > > >> Yes. The symptoms in 2.6.24RC2 are that during a kernel panic or when > > >> calling 'reboot' in the shell, it just hangs. Using the same dts and > > >> resets in 2.6.23.1 reboots fine. I don't have a cds reference, but > > >> someone who does should be able to c

RE: [PATCH v2] [POWERPC] Optimize counting distinct entries in the relocation sections

2007-11-27 Thread Medve Emilian
Hi Paul, I'm just wondering what are your latest thoughts about this patch (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=14707). Cheers, Emil. > -Original Message- > From: Medve Emilian > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PR

Re: 85xx software reset problems from paulus.git

2007-11-27 Thread Dale Farnsworth
Kumar Gala wrote: > >> Yes. The symptoms in 2.6.24RC2 are that during a kernel panic or when > >> calling 'reboot' in the shell, it just hangs. Using the same dts and > >> resets in 2.6.23.1 reboots fine. I don't have a cds reference, but > >> someone who does should be able to confirm whether the

Re: How to map addresses beyond 4GB

2007-11-27 Thread Dell Query
Thanks Dan Malek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 22, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Dell Query wrote: > May I know how to map this one? Just call ioremap() as usual. It will understand the > 4G physical address and return a useful virtual address to you. -- Dan --