Re: AMD E8860 on PowerPC with u-boot (T2080)

[Bas Vermeulen <bas-MbI5SpmOCPBHdOctNixuYw@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel-otUistvHUpPR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 2018-02-21 09:49 AM, Bas Vermeulen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am unsure if this is the right place to ask, but it seems relevant.
> >
> > I am trying to use an AMD E8860 (SI) board connected to an E6500 PowerPC
> > board (T2080RDB from NXP).
>
> BTW, looks like the CPU runs in big endian mode
> (CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN=y), doesn't it? If so, be warned that this is
> just the tip of the iceberg. The Mesa radeonsi driver doesn't work on
> big endian hosts yet, fixing that would involve a lot of work and pain.
> And without that, you won't be able to actually use any hardware
> acceleration.
>

Understood. At the moment I want to understand what I am doing wrong in
regards to the kernel part,
I'll cross the userspace bridge when I get there. The end-goal is a
completely different (real-time) OS,
and understanding how things work will help in any case.

Bas Vermeulen

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