Linux 2.6.16 for Nios II

Hi Scott,

I am very happy. I had been looking for it.

I had asked git/svn from Altera, but with no results.

I don't think the current wiki site will support them, either.

China had blocked many inet access to Taiwan, so it won't help a lot if I setup in my country.

It would be nice if you can setup a git repository.

I am working on initial patches to the latest 2.6.17.1 .

I had 2.6.17.1 kernel running on my board.

Some headers need update, including atomic.h, bitops.h futex.h .

There are still some bugs with initramfs, and I had reported to kernel.org .

I shall post the patches soon.

Cheer,

Hippo

Please find the nios2 patches for 2.6.17.1, which should be added on the nios2 patches of 2.6.16.1 .

http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operating...ios2-02.diff.gz (http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operatingsystems/%c2%b5clinux/kernelpatches/linux-2.6.17.1-nios2-02.diff.gz)

You should add linux-2.6.17-uc0.patch.gz from uclinux.org , too.

Hi All,

> It would be nice if you can setup a git repository.

Done: http://www.psyent.com/git/linux_2_6_16 (http://www.psyent.com/git/linux_2_6_16)

Everyone can see below for instructions.

> I will check if I can setup a server for git/svn repository at home.

That would be great -- using http is fine for pulls, but is useless for a push. I'd really like to see the

community take the initiative for maintaining the kernel. I greatly appreciate the effort by Microtronix,

but it's really not proper (or fair) to expect them to continue doing all of the work. We should be

taking much of that burden.

> I am working on initial patches to the latest 2.6.17.1 .

Sounds great, I've avoided .17 because I thought it wasn't officially considered "stable" yet -- what

is your opinion? Is is ok for nommu architectures? BTW: do you want me to send you the .16

patch? -- it might save you some time (and only includes the bare minimum).

> I had asked git/svn from Altera, but with no results.

That's unfortunate ... AD if fully behind Blackfin, and I'm seeing lots of momentum behind

microblaze. It's really not asking much -- especially when you consider the value of the

contributions. BTW: For kernel development git, IMHO, is the _only_ way to go. It was

admittedly a bit awkward for me to learn, but I have been _very_ impressed.

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For everyone's benefit, here's how to get the Nios II code for linux-2.6.16:

1. clone the git repository

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git linux-2.6.16.git

2. create and checkout a "nios2" branch

$ cd linux-2.6.16.git

$ git branch -f nios2 master

$ git checkout nios2

3. pull in the nios2 source tree

$ git pull http://www.psyent.com/git/linux_2_6_16 (http://www.psyent.com/git/linux_2_6_16) nios2

4. builld the kernel as you always do

Regards,

--Scott

Hi Scoot,

Yes, I will pull from your 2.6.16 git. Thanks.

About 2.6.17 , there aren't big change in nommu support. All uc patches are merged into the main stream in kernel 2.6 . So the patches in 2.6.17-uc0 are very small. It is different from 2.6.16 mostly in some arch headers. I think it is safe to use 2.6.17 . It has the first open sourced SD card driver, which might be useful to some embeded app.

Cheer,

Hippo