Re: or1k -M virt -hda and net.

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Rob,

CC linux-sh

On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> The sh2eb turtle board uses JCORE_EMAC which is still an out of tree
> driver. It's not secret, just too ugly to go upstream: done by a
> contractor and never cleaned up, full of half-finished IEEE-1588 support
> and so on. It used to be on
> https://web.archive.org/web/20200812035510/http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/linux-sh/
> but alas Rich purged his trees when he stopped being maintainer and
> archive.org didn't crawl that far down.
>
> I have the patch locally if you care, but without the corresponding
> hardware, not much point attaching 1600 lines. (We sent several turtle
> boards to Glaubitz and his assistants last year, and at least one of the
> recipients asked for a copy of the ethernet driver patch, which I sent.

I still have to ask you for that driver, so yes I am interested in
the patch ;-)

> Still applies and works as of the last kernel I updated on the board,
> 6.18 I think? The update is a "pop the sd card, stick in laptop, copy
> files, move sd card back" kinda thing.

... which has been the main obstacle for me to integrate turtleboard
in my regular kernel testing workflow. There are only 24 hours in a day,
so usually there is no time left for juggling SD cards :-(

> I should do a linux image that
> can wget and kexec, but haven't yet... Anyway, doesn't help with this
> issue.)

Does kexec work on MMU-less J2?
On SH4, there was never an upstream kernel that worked with upstream
kexec-tools. The only one that works is the kexec binary from the old
landisk distro, which predates SH support in upstream kexec-tools,
and can only start a new kernel from a system that is running kernel
2.6.22...

BTW, this is seriously off-topic for openrisc and qemu, so please
reduce the CC list when continuing the linux-sh discussion..

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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