Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-04 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Philippe, Philippe De Muyter wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:20:36PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: The arch trees of m68k and m68knommu have different structures. What will the structure of the merged tree look like ? I haven't given that too much thought yet. Most likely it would follow th

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-02 Thread Philippe De Muyter
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:20:36PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: >> The arch trees of m68k and m68knommu have different structures. What will >> the structure of the merged tree look like ? > > I haven't given that too much thought yet. Most likely it would > follow the m68k model, since it is essent

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-02 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Steven, On 09/02/2009 04:34 AM, Steven King wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2009 04:52:06 Philippe De Muyter wrote: Longer term I think we need to fully merge m68k and m68knommu before we push any MMU ColdFire patches to mainline. I fully agree with that. Who is currently working on the m

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-02 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Philippe, On 09/01/2009 09:52 PM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: Hi Greg, On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:19:44PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: Hi Philippe, On 09/01/2009 05:59 PM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:22:37AM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: Hello, Am Friday 14 August 2

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-01 Thread Steven King
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 04:52:06 Philippe De Muyter wrote: > > Longer term I think we need to fully merge m68k and m68knommu > > before we push any MMU ColdFire patches to mainline. > > I fully agree with that. > > Who is currently working on the m68k/m68knommu merge ? > Is there a mailing-li

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-01 Thread Philippe De Muyter
Hi Greg, On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:19:44PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: > Hi Philippe, > > On 09/01/2009 05:59 PM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:22:37AM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Am Friday 14 August 2009 13:22:59 schrieb Philippe De Muyter: Afte

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Philippe, On 09/01/2009 05:59 PM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:22:37AM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: Hello, Am Friday 14 August 2009 13:22:59 schrieb Philippe De Muyter: After reading this : http://rtg.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/docs/da-sa-txt/sa-steal.pdf I don't f

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-01 Thread Philippe De Muyter
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:21:49AM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: > BTW: What are the bad news from freescale Kurt Mahan sent? On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:22:09PM -0600, Kurt Mahan wrote: > [...] Those of us on the original team in > Utah were laid off earlier this year. ___

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-01 Thread Alexander Stein
Hello, Am Tuesday 01 September 2009 09:59:17 schrieb Philippe De Muyter: > IIRC, systec's name comes in some files distributed with the M5484lite > develpoment board. but these are patches against linux-2.6.25 that do not > apply anymore to the current version of linux kernel, and I see no sign >

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-09-01 Thread Philippe De Muyter
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:22:37AM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: > Hello, > > Am Friday 14 August 2009 13:22:59 schrieb Philippe De Muyter: > > After reading this : > > http://rtg.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/docs/da-sa-txt/sa-steal.pdf > > > > I don't feel anymore it is interesting. > > I'm the aut

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-31 Thread Alexander Stein
Hello, Am Friday 14 August 2009 13:22:59 schrieb Philippe De Muyter: > After reading this : > http://rtg.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/docs/da-sa-txt/sa-steal.pdf > > I don't feel anymore it is interesting. I'm the author of this document and as far as I know, Freescale has merged some of the change

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-16 Thread Kurt Mahan
LTIB BSP releases for the 547x/548x use the MMU. If you look at the init code you'll see it initialized and then there is MMU handling code to handle it. This code is also mostly common with the 5445x. There is an engineering team in China now handling linux/uclinux development for coldfire

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-16 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Philippe, Philippe De Muyter wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote: Hi Philippe, I maintain LTIB (the tool). Generally speaking for MMUless platforms I'd recommend using uClinux-dist. However if LTIB has the exact platform you're interested in that may be

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-14 Thread Philippe De Muyter
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:40:29AM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote: > Philippe De Muyter wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote: >>> Hi Philippe, >>> >>> I maintain LTIB (the tool). Generally speaking for MMUless platforms I'd >>> recommend using uClinux-dist. However

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-14 Thread Stuart Hughes
Philippe De Muyter wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote: Hi Philippe, I maintain LTIB (the tool). Generally speaking for MMUless platforms I'd recommend using uClinux-dist. However if LTIB has the exact platform you're interested in that may be helpful as it

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-14 Thread Philippe De Muyter
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:37:07AM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote: > Hi Philippe, > > I maintain LTIB (the tool). Generally speaking for MMUless platforms I'd > recommend using uClinux-dist. However if LTIB has the exact platform > you're interested in that may be helpful as it will be known to wor

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-13 Thread Stuart Hughes
Hi Philippe, I maintain LTIB (the tool). Generally speaking for MMUless platforms I'd recommend using uClinux-dist. However if LTIB has the exact platform you're interested in that may be helpful as it will be known to work out of the box. The compiler used in LTIB should work with uClinux

Re: [uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Durrant
Philippe, These are all good questions. Here at the office we make use of both Freescale's LTIB release and the uClinux-dist release. When Freescale releases a new part and matching evaluation board they will release it with a tool chain (from CodeSourcery) and an LTIB that is aware of the new

[uClinux-dev] ltib vs uclinux-dist

2009-08-12 Thread Philippe De Muyter
Hi all, I need to install (uc)linux on a in-house designed MCF5484-based board. I feel comfortable with uc-linux dist, having used it before on m68340 and mcf5272 based boards. I now saw that the MCF5484 development board from freescale comes with ltib. - What's the relation between uclinux-dist