general question about AR7010 arch.

[Oleksij Rempel]

Am 01.04.2013 18:24, schrieb 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.

Sounds great. I have AR5523+AR2112 and AR5523+AR5112.. so, some testing 
can be done :)


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Regards,
Oleksij