Hi Sascha, On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 08:33:13PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:17:47PM -0600, Marko Milutinovic wrote: > > I recently ported barebox to a platform using an old AT91 chip > > (at91m55800a, ARM7TDMI core). There is already a MACH_AT91 folder > > but this chip is sufficiently different that I just made a new > > folder MACH_AT91_legacy. This was just a test project for me to get > > familiar with using barebox. > > > > I'm just wondering if there is any value in me merging in the code > > for this? I realize it's a pretty old chipset, but I'm finding > > barebox very useful and would like to contribute to it. > > I never even heard of this chip. I think adding support for it should > be ok, but we might remove it in the future should non trivial > architecture changes become necessary and nobody cares for updating > this. We should somewhere have a board with this chip in the archive: http://www.phytec.de/de/produkte/module-im-ueberblick/phycore/produktdetails/p/phycore-at91m55800a.html Marko, are you working with a recent mainline kernel on this cpu? I'm wondering about the mmu-less state of the kernel. Havn't tried for some time. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
