Re: [Ltib] MPC8315E-RDB support, especially the PCI Express part?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Leon,

The content provided for LTIB and the references to it from Savannah CVS
are independently managed.  This is for a variety of reasons, including
that it allows the available content on the GPP to be used by any rootfs
builder, not just LTIB. 

In this case the 8315 has not been merged out to Savannah (yet).  To get
help with this BSPs (as it comes from Freescale) you'll need to contact
them directly:

   * go to http://www.freescale.com
   * click on "Support / Technical support"
   * click on "Submit a Service Request"
   * register to get a user name and password.
   * login in with your user name and password
   * on the "New Service Request" page:
      * category = Technical Request
      * topic = Linux BSP
      * Click on "Continue"
   * fill out the information for the service request
   * click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page.

Note that you should have all the sources (tarballs/patches) in the BSP
ISO that are needed for to build the default configuration.

Regards, Stuart

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:40 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I cannot find MPC8315E support in current LTIB. However, on
> Freescale's web site I can download a BSP dated ...20080627_ltib for
> the MPC8315E-RDB board.
> 
> Also in bitshrine.org, I can find several u-boot and Linux 2.6.24
> patches regarding 8315E, but they do not apply to vanilla kernels.
> 
> I am a bit confused, what is the situation regarding Linux support
> here? My aim is to work with the x1 PCI Express root complex on the
> chip.
> Also, none of the Freescale patches regarding PCI Express seem to be
> brought upstream.
> 
> Can anyone help me forward, all my hopes are on Stuart :-)
> 
> The latest vanilla kernels (2.6.24+) seem to work OK btw, but I would
> like to use PCI Express.
> 
> (As usual, I will merge tested and working support into the
> OpenEmbedded project.)
> 
> Regards,