On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Charlie Brady wrote:
> I haven't found signs of it in the archives, but is anyone aware of any
> efforts to fold in Broadcom's support for their 4702 processor, as used in
> Wireless gateways such as the Linksys WRT54G?
FWIW, there was some mention of this on lkml.
http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=313689
Looks like it may have quickly been put in the "Too Hard" basket. The
bulk of the 15Mb patch, however, is not a port per se, but addition of
kdbg and XFS, so there won't be anywhere near that much real work.
Here's an important one, however, which I alluded to yesterday:
+ifdef CONFIG_BCM4710
+GCCFLAGS += -m4710a0kern
endif
I haven't tried building and running a kernel built without the gcc
workarounds, so I don't know whether they are only required for early
silicon. My guess would be not. Is there anyone from Broadcom here who
knows or can find out?
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Charlie
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