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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 2013 07:22:21 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [rfc] mips74k/ar9344 support
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.. and an update:

http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/mips/20130929-mips74k-2.diff



-adrian



On 29 September 2013 04:38, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Here's an initial hacked up patch to get the AR9344 to mountroot> .
>
> (Which isn't true - it panics due to missing PHY setup on if_arge; I'll
> fix that up soon.)
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/mips/20130929-mips74k-1.diff
>
> The specific changes:
>
> * add CPU_MIPS24KC and CPU_MIPS74KC
> * mips32r2 CPUs require an EHB as a hazard for things, rather than NOPs
> * mips74k cores have a different CCA (cache coherency attributes) than the
> default - I lifted this from the netbsd mips support.
>
> now, the ar71xx CPUs are all currently marked as CPU_MIPS4KC. I'll follow
> this up with a commit to change that. There may be things we can optimise
> in the CPU_MIPS24KC case.
>
> Warner and I have started talking about how to properly fix all of the
> hazard handling. We'll discuss that later.
>
> I'd like to commit this to -HEAD so people wishing to hack on mips74k
> platforms can do stuff. Does anyone have any issues with the above?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
>



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