XXS1500 Porting Status Report #5 - delays

Vanilla 2.6.8.1 appears to have PCMCIA glitches in it, and 2.6.9-rc1-* appears to have NFS problems amongst other things.

On the plus side, my XXS1500 is now mostly stable enough to be left building packages, but it still borks out occasionally :-(.

A new patch is up on my Gentoo dev space, against Linux-MIPS CVS + 2.6.9-rc1-bk12. It's a bit bloated, and should be consider dangerous to your PCMCIA [expect it to hard-hang the box in some cases]. See the latest console logs for examples of the problems.

An ALSA driver for the Au1x00 has floated around on the Linux-MIPS mailing list, so that should probably be added in here at some point.

I'm busy with school since the semester just started, and waiting for 2.6.9-rc2 before I continue work on the XXS1500.

Todo tracking:
PCMCIA - should work, just debugging it now
PCI - stubs in place
USB - needs to be revisited entirely, looks like non-PCI USB was dropped between 2.4 and 2.6
Audio - test outside code
NFSRoot Env - still a mismatch hybrid between Gentoo and Debian packages, need to build everything as -mips2 or -mips32 (I'm in favour of the former at the moment, as it can then be re-used on most mipsel boxes).

I've had some questions about what cross-platform toolchain I use, and I'm using Gentoo's crossdev which provides me with:
gcc-3.3.4-r1
binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1

I've only got it in kernel mode, no glibc provided.