Haven't posted here in awhile. Work is keeping me busy. As is getting the kernel running on SH-2A on the MS7206SE01 board.
On the sh front, things have been progressing nicely with the new clock and timer frameworks. The timer stuff is still in need of being extended to more transparently deal with multiple timer channels, but this can wait until the timesource driver stuff on l-k sorts itself out. No use redoing the timer stuff twice..
On another note, the cpufreq driver still needs to be reworked for the clock framework as well. This will still take a bit of doing, but in the end it should leave us with a single driver capable of dynamic scaling on every CPU subtype that hooks in to the clock framework (this will go on the TODO list for now).
With sh64, things have also been pretty quiet. Ran in to some fairly consistent slab corruption that seems to have only popped up in recent kernels, suppose its time to dig out the redzoning for non-BYTES_PER_WORD minaligned architectures patch and get slab debugging working again. Unfortunately the UW SCSI drives I was using that managed to trigger this on my Cayman both ended up killing themselves. Lets see how far we get with onboard IDE.. judging by the schematics, at least PIO was wired right, and should mostly work (DMA on the other hand..). Some of the GPIO configuration in the SuperIO is probably still off (since much of that was borrowed from microdev), so it seems there will be more than one thing to debug..
And just to show how often I actually log in to this thing, I seem to have had this following paragraph started, which was amusingly retained (from some time in 2003):
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More uClibc hacking today and the last couple of days. Started working on the shared loader backend for sh64, which is now at the point where most of the work is done, but now there's just a lot of debugging and testing left. At least some good has come out of it so far, it turned out that the R_SH_IMM_MEDLOW16 relocation was broken in multiple ways in glibc, so I ended up fixing that while writing up the relocation handling code for uClibc. Regardless, the uClibc stuff is in pretty good shape now, so the next logical step is to start tinkering with buildroot and friends, though that will still have to wait till after some more debugging time.
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The ironic thing is that years later, the sh64 ldso stuff needs to be fixed again due to some ABI changes, though I have so far been successfully putting it off. ldso is vindictive ;-)