Re: Clarification on SH7705 processor based reference designs

[Paul M. <le...@li...>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:00:51AM -0800, Cmmn Ml wrote:
>    We are trying to build a SH3 7705 based device which runs linux 2.6
>    kernel. When we try to identify the most closest port to our board we
>    found that there are two boards.
> 
> 
>     1. Renesas EDOSK7705
>     2. (Solution Engine) SE7705
> 
> 
>    However we found that the build for EDOSK7705 is broaken in linux
>    2.6.16 (after applying the SH linux stable patch relavant to this
>    kernel version sh--stable--2.6.16). But if we use the SE7705
>    configuration with processor as SH7705 it builds without any error.
>    Further we found that files relavant to SE/770x have conditional
>    compilation to SH7705. Unfortunately we could not locate any board with
>    SE7705 (Solution Engine for SH7705).
> 
First, why are you using such an old kernel? Please use current git, or
at least 2.6.20.

SH7705 has not had a lot of attention in some time, so it's quite
possibly broken. The EDOSK7705 board will likely be removed unless
someone expresses an interest in it in the near future.

>    Can you / one of you tell me
> 
>    1.       Is there a Solution Engine board targeting SH7705?
> 
There is a 7705 Solution Engine, yes. I'm not aware of anyone actively
working on it, though. The SH7705 part itself has been obsoleted for some
time, so I don't expect this to change much in the future either.