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Re: AT91SAM7X Port
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:05:13PM +0200, John Eigelaar wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:04:41 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> >
> > Not yet. There is a strong chance that i will need such a port next
> > month. If this happens i will be tasked by my employer to make the
> > port. So if you are doing a port i suggest we work together. Which of
> > the X peripherals are you interested in? I need an Ethernet driver
> > which i can connect to lwip.
>
> SPI, UART, EMAC with lwip, probably the same as you do ...
I don`t need SPI. However the existing AT91 SPI driver compiles
cleanly with the SAM7S. So it just needs testing...
> > What may be more of a problem is the two GPIO controllers. The
> > existing code, var HAL, SPI, USART etc, assumes that the pins they use
> > are on GPIO port A. If this is not true with the X it might get
> > messy. We need to compare the S and X and see what is connected where
> > with respect to the GPIO controllers.
>
> This is actually a problem with the existing S port as well, as the
> alternative peripheral pinouts is not really addressed. This might be a
> good oppurtunity to devise a proper solution for this if we are forced to.
If i remember correctly, i did add them to var_io.h. However nothing
actually uses them.
Andrew