Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:01:02 -0300 от Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On 11/17/2014 04:39 AM, Alexander Shiyan wrote: > > Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:35:23 -0300 от Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Hi Alexander, > >> > >> On 10/21/2014 01:34 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote: > >>> Hello all. > >>> > >>> We started developing device which uses NXP LPC43xx CPU. I would like to add > >>> support for this CPU series into barebox. > >>> The problem is that there is no support for this architecture in the Linux kernel, > >>> and it would upset the current concept (the barebox tree is very similar to Linux > >>> tree and we not have any orphan arch-s). > >> > >> I'm working on the upstream Linux port for LPC43xx SoCs. The obvious > >> choice would be mach-lpc43xx. The problem is that LPC18xx are similar > >> SoCs, and I think it would make sense to have them in the same mach-xxx. > >> Haven't made up my mind on this issue, and I suspect we won't find out > >> until we push some patches upstream. > >> > >> Anyway, if you make any progress with the barebox port, I'd be happy to > >> take a look and help you test it. > > > > The kernel has existing mach-lpc32xx architecture. I think it would be appropriate > > to rename it to mach-lpc and move the CPU-specific options in the local KConfig as first step. > > > > LPC3xxx is ARMv5 based while LPC4xxx and LPC1xxx are ARMv7-M based. This should not be a problem. Look at the i.MX architecture, this contain v4, v5, v7 CPUs. --- _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
