Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-21 Thread Kevin D. Kissell
> > The overhead of timer interrupts at this low clockrate is significant > > so I recommend to minimize the timer interrupt rate as far as possible. > > This is really a tradeoff between latency and overhead and matters > > much less on hardcores which run at hundreds of MHz. For power sensitive

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin D. Kissell
> On Jan 21 2007 00:14, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:42:37PM +, sathesh babu wrote: > > > >> I am trying to run Linux-2.6.18.2 ( with preemption enable) > >> kernel on FPGA board which has MIPS24KE processor runs at 12 > >> MHZ. Programmed the timer to give interrupt

Re: [PATCH resend] MIPS: Allow FPU emulator to use non-stack area.

2014-10-06 Thread Kevin D. Kissell
On 10/06/2014 01:23 PM, David Daney wrote: From: David Daney In order for MIPS to be able to support a non-executable stack, we need to supply a method to specify a userspace area that can be used for executing emulated branch delay slot instructions. We add a new system call, sys_set_fpuemul_