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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:32 pm    Post subject: LEON copro, how to use it? Reply with quote

Does any body know how to use it from within Linux? :?:
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't even know what it is. What is it?

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John R. Graham wrote:
Don't even know what it is. What is it?


Leon is LGPL sparc v8 processor that often (including wd mybook I'm playing with) accompany arm cpu as a coprocessor for heavy integer or fp operations like ipsec.

see http://www.leox.org/about.html

WD MyBook use LEON to handle a power button and help NIC. I don't need the power button and have to initialize NIC very early on boot - so I compile out of kernel both power button and Leon depended NIC driver and looking for guidelines how to load Leon with something useful.
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