Topic: "non-mips" MIPS APs/routers

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Post #1

wigyori

13 Jul 2005, 13:41

Hi,

Is anyone working currently on getting support for these devices?

-w-

Post #2

florian_

13 Jul 2005, 18:31

There is a lot work being done by some guys to support WAG54G (arm7 based processor). If you want to help them

Post #3

wigyori

13 Jul 2005, 19:18

But I'm able to put my hands only on a GN-A16B right now, I couldn't find any ar7 nearby

-w-

Post #4

florian_

13 Jul 2005, 19:22

Few documentation on it. What kind of processor does it run ? ar9 maybe ? xscale ?

Post #5

z3ro

13 Jul 2005, 19:33

RItalMan wrote:

There is a lot work being done by some guys to support WAG54G (arm7 based processor). If you want to help them

The ar7 platform is NOT arm based (I have no idea why everyone thinks this...) it is in fact, mips.

Post #6

wigyori

13 Jul 2005, 19:53

RItalMan, its RTL8181-based (http://rtl8181.sf.net), which is a "non-mips" MIPS processor. "non-mips" because it lacks some MIPS opcodes which are patented.
As I heard from Kaloz, its toolchain (official or non-official, you decide) has many hassles, also the devices based on these usually have 2Mb of flash memory only, which is the main reason for being unsupported. Yet, I hope.

One more thing: As you may note, these boards do not have anything special apart from the (not so) usual JTAG and serial. It may be only a mental masturbation to get these working with OpenWRT, but why not? As far as I know, the official aim of the project is "World Domination".

-w-

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Post #7

z3ro

13 Jul 2005, 20:00

wigyori wrote:

RItalMan, its RTL8181-based (http://rtl8181.sf.net), which is a "non-mips" MIPS processor. "non-mips" because it lacks some MIPS opcodes which are patented.
As I heard from Kaloz, its toolchain (official or non-official, you decide) has many hassles, also the devices based on these usually have 2Mb of flash memory only, which is the main reason for being unsupported. Yet, I hope.
One more thing: As you may note, these boards do not have anything special apart from the (not so) usual JTAG and serial. It may be only a mental masturbation to get these working with OpenWRT, but why not? As far as I know, the official aim of the project is "World Domination".
-w-

If your talking about the ar7 platform (and I guess you are since you addressed it to RItalMan, who talked about the ar7) then, as I have said before, this platform is mips. I'm one of the people working on support for the ar7.

Post #8

wigyori

13 Jul 2005, 20:04

I was talking about the RTL8181, telling him what this CPU consists of, and what "non-mips" means in this case.

-w-

Post #9

z3ro

13 Jul 2005, 20:06

wigyori wrote:

I was talking about the RTL8181, telling him what this CPU consists of, and what "non-mips" means in this case.
-w-

Oh, sorry, when you said "RItalMan, its RTL8181-based" I thought by "it's" you were refering to the ar7, which RItalMan mentioned... I misunderstood you.

Post #10

florian_

14 Jul 2005, 00:12

Lol lot of confusion tonight, sorry for having confused ar7 with arm. Ok so effectively the Realtek processor is not a mips one.

First link dealing with RTL8181 :

http://rtl8181.sourceforge.net/

Post #11

wigyori

14 Jul 2005, 06:38

RItalMan, I mentioned this URL when I was describing what is thie CPU OK, just to make a bit more clear.

Is anyone working currently on getting support for these devices for OpenWRT?

-w-

Post #12

wigyori

17 Jul 2005, 22:45

Okay, I'll start doing some action with these. Stay tuned.

-w-

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