Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 20:26:54 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@incunabulum.net> To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Subject: Broadcom 4710a0 Message-ID: <4638E5FE.3060901@incunabulum.net>
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Hi,
I've been investigating what, if anything, needs to be done with the
FreeBSD/mips system compiler to support the earlier Broadcom 4710A0
chips found in the Linksys WRT54G and Asus WL-HDD2.5 systems.
It looks as though the patches Broadcom integrated into their gcc fork
only prevent the generation of branch-likely instructions. In our import
of GCC 3.4.6, the -mno-branch-likely option now exists, therefore I
believe no patch is required.
For system bringup it looks like some TLB and cache workarounds are
necessary (based on reading Linux). A patch against Linux appears here:
http://www.freewrt.org/trac/browser/trunk/freewrt/target/linux/brcm-2.6/patches/003-bcm4710_cache_fixes.patch?rev=1&format=txt
Regards,
BMS
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