On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 10:40, Michele Bisogno <micbis.open...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been a happy OpenWRT user for many years now, always buying > routers that could allow me to run it easily.
Hi, nice to hear this. > > I've been working (actually only in my free time as a hobby) on > porting OpenWRT onto this Renesas board: > https://www.renesas.com/eu/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/rz-mpus/rzg2l-evkit-rzg2l-evaluation-board-kit > which features this Arm Cortex-A55 based device: > https://www.renesas.com/eu/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/rz-mpus/rzg2l-general-purpose-microprocessors-dual-core-arm-cortex-a55-12-ghz-cpus-and-single-core-arm-cortex-m33 > > I guess this is a new platform, since it does not really fit in any of > the already supported ones. > > I got it working and I am polishing the patch before submitting it. > The support of this device is already mainlined in the Linux kernel, > so I am using 6.1 as is with the appropriate config. > Arm Trusted Firmware and u-boot are instead taken from the respective > Renesas forks, available on github. Great, these Reneas SoC-s are rather well supported in respective upstream projects. > > However this is the first time I do that, and I am still reading and > learning, so I would like to get opinions, hints, why not constructive > criticism and hopefully encouragement. I definitively encourage people to contribute towards more HW support, especially HW which is mostly upstream. > > For example, naming (renesas? renesas-rz? rz?) and structure of the > subfolders. There are other variants I would like to add: RZ/G2LC, > RZ/G2UL and maybe others. To me, just "renesas" sounds good and then you can introduce the individual SoC families as subtargets. Regards, Robert > > System > > HostnameOpenWrt > ModelRenesas SMARC EVK based on r9a07g044l2 > ArchitectureARMv8 Processor rev 0 > Target Platformrz/g2l > Firmware VersionOpenWrt SNAPSHOT r24187-bb8fd41f9a / LuCI Master > git-23.294.26440-30a8a0d > Kernel Version6.1.59 > Local Time2023-10-29 07:44:17 > Uptime0h 9m 11s > Load Average0.13, 0.08, 0.05 > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
