MIPS Malta - Revision history

Ralf at 10:58, 10 October 2012

2012-10-10T10:58:24Z

2012-10-10T10:52:36Z

‎Hardware

2012-10-10T10:50:13Z

‎Core cards: convert table to PrettyTable

2012-10-09T20:16:01Z

‎Hardware

2012-10-09T19:48:24Z

‎Linux support

2012-10-09T19:47:12Z

‎Linux support

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‎External links

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‎Emulation

2012-10-09T19:17:32Z

‎Firmware

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‎Emulation

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 * [[Cirrus Logic]] CS4281 [[Wikipedia:AC97|AC'97]] audio codec with [[Wikipedia:Audio/modem_riser|AMR]] riser
 * [[Wikipedia:AMD_Lance_Am7990|Am79c970 PCnet-PCI Ethernet]] controller
 ==Core cards==

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 The Malta board has an Intel [[Wikipedia:Intel 82371#PIIX4|82371AB PIIX4]] (aka Southbridge) which provides the following:
-*(2) PCI IDE controllers (One controller is dedicated to the CompactFLASH socket.)
+* 2 PCI IDE controllers. One controller is dedicated to the CompactFLASH socket.
-*USB 1.1 Host Bridge
+* USB 1.1 Host Bridge
-*Two [[Wikipedia:Intel_8259|i8259 IAC]] controllers
+* Two [[Wikipedia:Intel_8259|i8259 IAC]] controllers
-*One [[Wikipedia:Intel_8254|i8254]] timer
+* One [[Wikipedia:Intel_8254|i8254]] timer
-*One MC146818 style [[Real-time clock|RTC]] and [[Nonvolatile BIOS memory|CMOS]] controller
+* One MC146818 style [[Real-time clock|RTC]] and [[Nonvolatile BIOS memory|CMOS]] controller
 On the PIIX4 PCI bus there are the following devices:
 *[[Wikipedia:Super_io|Super I/O]] chip which provides:
-**16550 compatible DUART
+** 16550 compatible DUART
-**LPT port
+** LPT port
-**Floppy controller
+** Floppy controller
-**PS/2 keyboard and mouse
+** PS/2 keyboard and mouse
-*[[Cirrus Logic]] CS4281 [[Wikipedia:AC97|AC'97]] audio codec with [[Wikipedia:Audio/modem_riser|AMR]] riser
+* [[Cirrus Logic]] CS4281 [[Wikipedia:AC97|AC'97]] audio codec with [[Wikipedia:Audio/modem_riser|AMR]] riser
-*[[Wikipedia:AMD_Lance_Am7990|Am79c970 PCnet-PCI Ethernet]] controller
+* [[Wikipedia:AMD_Lance_Am7990|Am79c970 PCnet-PCI Ethernet]] controller
 ==Core cards==

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 Malta board may be equipped with various "core cards". A core card includes a CPU, a system controller (aka Northbridge) and SDRAM module.
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+{| {{PrettyTable}}
   !CoreCard||CORID||CPUs||Controller
   |-
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   |CoreFPGA3||9||.||[[MIPS SOC-it 101]]
   |}
 == Firmware ==

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 ==Hardware==
-The Malta board has four 32-bit PCI slots that are usually clocked at 33MHz and onboard Am79c970 PC-Net PCI Ethernet. It has Intel [[Wikipedia:Intel 82371|82371AB PIIX4]] (aka Southbridge) onboard which provides two PCI IDE (one for CompactFLASH socket), USB 1.1, and conventional PC-compatible peripherials : two i8259 IAC, i8254 timer, mc146818 RTC and CMOS e.t.c. The Malta has also a SuperIO chip behind a PIIX4 PCI/ISA bridge wich provides 16550 compatible DUART, LPT, floppy controller and PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
+The Malta board has an Intel [[Wikipedia:Intel 82371#PIIX4|82371AB PIIX4]] (aka Southbridge) which provides the following:
+*(2) PCI IDE controllers (One controller is dedicated to the CompactFLASH socket.)
-Malta board also contains Crystal Semiconductors CS4281 [[Wikipedia:AC97|AC'97]] PCI sound and [[Wikipedia:Audio/modem_riser|AMR]] riser.
+*USB 1.1 Host Bridge
+*Two [[Wikipedia:Intel_8259|i8259 IAC]] controllers
-The Malta can operate in [[Endianess|big endian]] or [[Endianess|little endian]] mode. This is accomplished by a ''BIGEND'' switch on the board.
+*One [[Wikipedia:Intel_8254|i8254]] timer
+*One MC146818 style [[Real-time clock|RTC]] and [[Nonvolatile BIOS memory|CMOS]] controller
-The 4Mbyte FLASH at the 0xbe000000 contains YAMON, YAMON's environment and has a free space for user applications.
+On the PIIX4 PCI bus there are the following devices:
 ==Core cards==

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 == Linux support ==
-The Malta is fully supported by Linux&nbsp;2.6 and current Linux&nbsp;3.x kernels. The main [[Git]] tree hosted on linux-mips.org is geared towards bleeding-edge development. There is a separate [http://git.linux-mips.org/?p=linux-mti.git;a=summary MIPS Technologies] tree that is geared towards absolute stability on Malta as well as the [[MIPS SEAD-3|SEAD-3]] platform. It is actively maintained by MIPS Technologies, Inc.
+The Malta is fully supported by Linux&nbsp;2.6 and current Linux&nbsp;3.x kernels. The main [[Git]] tree hosted on linux-mips.org is geared towards bleeding-edge development. There is a separate [http://git.linux-mips.org/?p=linux-mti.git;a=summary tree] that is geared towards absolute stability on Malta as well as the [[MIPS SEAD-3|SEAD-3]] platform. It is actively maintained by MIPS Technologies, Inc.
 ==Emulation==

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 * Debian [http://people.debian.org/~ths/mips-kernels/malta/ precompiled kernels] and HOWTO.
 * [http://www.lynuxworks.com/board-support/mips/malta.php LynuxWorks BSPs for MIPS Malta]
 [[category:evaluation board]][[category:YAMON]]

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 Malta board is the most popular platform for MIPS full-system emulation.
-[[Emulators#GXemul|GXemul]] supports MIPS Malta CoreLV (CORID=1) well enough to run unmodified Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels (except PCI and LAN stuff).
+[[Emulators#GXemul|GXemul]] supports MIPS Malta CoreLV (CoreID=1) well enough to run unmodified Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels (except PCI and LAN stuff).
 [[QEMU]] also support MIPS Malta architecture.
-* [http://www.ovpworld.org/mips OVPWorld MIPS Homepage] OVPsim simulates the MIPS Malta platform.
+* [http://www.ovpworld.org/mips OVPWorld MIPS Homepage] [[OVPsim]] simulates the MIPS Malta platform.
 * [[Wikipedia:Virtutech|Virtutech]] [[Wikipedia:Simics|Simics Developer]] also emulates Malta.

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 == Firmware ==
-Malta uses [[YAMON]] for it's firmware. YAMON determines various Core cards model and endianity automatically. The YAMON image contains two, Big- and Little- endian parts and "magic" code to determine current endianity.
+Malta uses [[YAMON]] for its firmware. YAMON determines various Core card models and their endianness automatically. The YAMON image contains Big and Little endian parts and "magic" code to determine the current endian.
 There is [[RedBoot]] port to Malta too.