Subject: Re: linux support for freescale e5500 core?

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:03:52 +1000

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:26 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > Sounds like a candidate for upstreaming the patch :-)
> 
> As I recall we proposed upstreaming it a while back but there wasn't a
> lot of interest since it's most useful in supporting poorly-written
> legacy apps. :) 

Heh. Well as long as only 970 had that bit ... but with e5500 coming up
with that too, I suppose it makes -some- sense. Let's at least look at
the approach you took and we can decide based on how invasive/ugly it
is :-)

Cheers,
Ben.