general question about AR7010 arch.

[Adrian Chadd]

On 1 April 2013 00:40, Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> do i understand correctly - AR7010 is generally a MIPS CPU?
> AR5523 is R4000 MIPS. How about AR9170 and other usb controllers?
> If it is true, are there any good reason to develop separate firmware for
> each of them?

So!

* AR5523 is a mips 4kp or 4kc, I forget
* AR9170 is some SH core (SH4?);
* AR7010/AR9271 is a Tensilica core.

It'd be nice if there were some shared code between them! However a
lot of code gets stuffed into ROM. So it's not necessarily easy to
have a shared firmware between each.

That said, it'd be nice if we could unify things over time if it were
possible. There's not much code in each of these.

Anyway - I'm trying to get the AR5523 firmware open sourced. I'll post
updates when this has finished.



Adrian