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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-linux-mips@e-smith.com>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Charlie Brady wrote:

> I haven't found signs of it in the archives, but is anyone aware of any 
> efforts to fold in Broadcom's support for their 4702 processor, as used in 
> Wireless gateways such as the Linksys WRT54G?

FWIW, there was some mention of this on lkml.

http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=313689

Looks like it may have quickly been put in the "Too Hard" basket. The 
bulk of the 15Mb patch, however, is not a port per se, but addition of 
kdbg and XFS, so there won't be anywhere near that much real work.

Here's an important one, however, which I alluded to yesterday:

+ifdef CONFIG_BCM4710
+GCCFLAGS       += -m4710a0kern
 endif

I haven't tried building and running a kernel built without the gcc 
workarounds, so I don't know whether they are only required for early 
silicon. My guess would be not. Is there anyone from Broadcom here who 
knows or can find out?

--
Charlie