OpenRISC 1000 Project: Linux Port & Device Drivers Development

Introduction

The aim of this project is to port and maintain Linux kernel to the OpenRISC 1000 family and develop device drivers for various OpenCores peripherals.

Linux is a free, open source UNIX kernel that together with the GNU C library and GNU utilities forms the GNU/Linux operating system.

Features are:

Free, open source code with no royalty
UNIX class operating system
Process protection through use of the Memory Management Unit
Multitasking, preemptive scheduling
Interprocess communication and synchronization
TCP/IP networking and numerous other network protocols
File systems NFS, ext2, MS-DOS, FAT16/32 and others

Status

Linux kernel is being ported by using a simulator

If you would like to help with the development, please contact the developers.

Download

Source code for current development tarball of the OpenRISC Linux port is not yet available. If we could get additional help, we could get Linux/or1k kernel working sonner.

Documentation

No documentation available at this time. See Linux.com web site for information about Linux.

Wish List (TODO List)

This is a what we want to do/have in the future and right now nobody is working on this. If you want to help, send an email to the mailing list.

Device Drivers for various OpenCores peripherals (ethernet, usb, uart etc)

If you have a suggestion for new Wish List entry, feel free to send it to the mailing list so that is added to the list and somebody may start working on it.

Developer(s)

The team working on Linux port and device drivers:

Matan Ziv-Av, matan@svgalib.org_NOSPAM

Mailing list / Discussion Forum

To participate in the development or simply to discuss Linux/OR1K issues and to report bugs, go to the openrisc mailing list. To subscribe to the list, follow mailing list subscribe instructions.

Page Maintainer

This web page is maintained by Matan Ziv-Av.