Fwd: Re: openrisc

[Martin Stein]

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Subject: Re: openrisc
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:08:18 +0100
From: Nick Betteridge <nick.betteridge at ...2...>
To: Martin Stein <martin.stein at ...1...>

Hi Martin,

Thanks for getting back to me - no problem on delayed reply as I'm
looking after my two boys whilst trying to do some work. It's chaos.

No problem also on using the genode lists. I may initially ask some very
dumb questions as I haven't touched assembler work and processors since
the early 80's.

I have quickly scanned through your base_hw. Thank you so much for
really documenting the code so well - at a first glance it looks as
though a port should be straight forward.

For the next two weeks I have to manage a 9 year old and a twelve year
old and will attempt a port on my own if and when I get a chance. (I
can't believe I was so badly behaved at those ages). After that we're on
holiday in France until the beginning of September. From September
onwards I hope to devote one day a week to this.

Thanks again for being supportive and offering your help.

Cheers,
Nick

On 03/08/12 00:14, Martin Stein wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> First of all please excuse the delayed reply.
>
> For me its no problem that you've targeted me directly,
> but i would propose to move this discussion to the
> main list of Genode Labs for two reasons.
> On the one hand it might be that other readers can
> complete my comments in order that you can succeed
> as soon as possible. On the other hand the results could
> help other peoples as well.
>
> To bring it back to your questions, i'm very pleased to
> hear about your intentions concerning OpenRISC,
> not least because for now i don't know anybody who
> addresses oneself to this task.
>
> Nevertheless i would recommend you to have a look
> to my branch 'base_hw':
> https://github.com/m-stein/genode/tree/base_hw
>
> It offers the direct port of Genode to several CortexA9
> systems through the 'base-hw' repository and thereby
> pursues goals similar to 'base-mb'. Thus it can be seen
> as the latest state of running Genode directly on RISC.
> Furthermore 'base-mb' can't hide that it was my first
> try to create a microkernel and it is an aspiration to
> provide Microblaze support with the means of 'base_mb'
> someday.
>
> Certainly this branch will be merged to the official 'master'
> branch soon, we only just merged it into staging to let our
> build bot give it a last check.
>
> So if you have further questions dont't hesitate to ask.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> On 08/01/2012 07:25 PM, Nick Betteridge wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I hope you don't mind me writing directly to you.
>>
>> I am just about to do a port of your microblaze base of genode to
>> openrisc. After spending sometime reading through the OR1K
>> architecture manual and additional documentation I'm hoping that it
>> should be quite straight forward.
>>
>> However, it suddenly struck me that somebody might have already done
>> this. Do you know if anybody has done an Openrisc port?
>>
>> Just one more question - do you have any idea when you will be adding
>> capability-based delegation of communication rights to the base-mb tree?
>>
>> Finally, I may have a few questions about the microblaze
>> implementation whilst doing the port - would you mind if I contacted you?
>>
>> Cheers and best regards,
>>
>> Nick