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From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom•gr>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge•com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>, linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: the door is closing for 2.4
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:24:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD032C1.9060504@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FCF540C.3010302@embeddededge.com>


Dan Malek wrote:

> Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time I had it at least compile, but for my board only.
>> But then you mentioned you were working on it and I dropped it.
>
>
> I had been working on it, primarily to get the processor specific
> changes done.
>
>> Could you please elaborate on the tasks that need to be done?
>> I know that the head_8xx.S file definetely needs alot of work,
>> and you mentioned the drivers.
>
>
> The serial driver doesn't compile since the serial subsystem was
> reworked.  The old data structures used to represent port
> information (in particular serial_state) no longer works.
> Yes, head_8xx.S needs lots of work, but to me that is the easy part :-)

Well if you can get head_8xx.S in some decent shape I can get it to boot
since in a board of mine I don't use the built-in uart but an external
MAX3100.

Do the serial drivers based on the generic_serial interface still work
in 2.6?

>
>
>> What is the minimum stuff needed to make it work at least for my
>> boards?
>
>
> Make it compile again, I'll take it from there.

OK, I'll try (maybe with taking out the 8xx uart out completely).

>
>> I'd be happy to help at least as long as my busy schedule permits.
>
>
> Me, too.  Just don't be annoyed if it takes me a while to respond,
> especially if testing changes is involved.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>     -- Dan
>
>
>
>
And finally do you think it makes sence to try to consolidate the 8xx
and 82xx drivers?
If we're going to need some major restructuring and/or rewrite of the
drivers that
makes sense IMHO.

Regards

Pantelis


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-05  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-04  0:34 the door is closing for 2.4 Paul Mackerras
2003-12-04  9:16 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2003-12-04 13:55   ` Dan Malek
2003-12-04 15:06     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2003-12-04 15:34       ` Dan Malek
2003-12-05  7:24         ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
2003-12-05 18:54           ` Dan Malek
2003-12-04  9:47 ` Stefan Roese
2003-12-05  0:08 ` Kumar Gala
2004-01-12  5:30   ` Paul Mackerras
2003-12-10 15:38 ` Hubert Figuiere
2003-12-10 16:55   ` Tom Rini
2003-12-10 16:57     ` Hubert Figuiere
2003-12-10 19:19       ` Tom Rini

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