From: Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor•org>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram•es>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: resurrecting the mvme5100 ppc platform
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:34:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100218153442.GC2873@ninthfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100208112116.GA3381@iram.es>
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:21:16PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:39:35PM +0000, Paride Legovini wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm just started working on some mvme5100 boards, and so I discovered
> > that support for these cards has been dropped with linux-2.6.27 due to
> > lack of interest. Here is the relevent post on linuxppc-embedded:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org/msg30049.html
> >
> > Well, I'd really like to see support for the mvme5100 to be reintegrated
> > in the kernel. I'm willing to help on this, but at the moment I don't
> > know how much work is to be done, as I don't know how the switch from
> > ppc to powerpc changed things.
>
> A lot, these are PreP platforms. I'm using several MVME24xx/26xx/27xx
> here (some have been running continously over a decade). They have
> a lot of similarities with MVME5100 if I remember correctly.
>
> I don't have time right now (especially if I am alone) to write
> support for them, but I am interested in running a more recent
> kernel, provided it's not too bloated (some machines only have
> 16MB of RAM).
This is quite discouraging, I think I'll just keep using linux-2.6.26.8,
the last kernel supporting the mvme5100 (afaik). I'd like to work on
a patch for newer kernels, but I have to finish a project in a
reasonable time, so unfortunately I can't start studying these kernel
internals now. Anyway, if you'll feel like working on it tell me, I'll
be happy to help.
Paride
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2010-02-04 13:39 resurrecting the mvme5100 ppc platform Paride Legovini
2010-02-08 11:21 ` Gabriel Paubert
2010-02-18 15:34 ` Paride Legovini [this message]
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