Subject: Re: Microcode patches for mpc8xx

From: "Vladimir A. Gurevich" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 06:46:23 -0700

Dear Wolfgang,

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>>since we are on this topic here: look like SMC relocation is explicitly not supported and I can't see the SPI driver as well (unless it reuses 8260 driver). 
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>In our CVS tree? See the old linux-2.4 tree. We don't see  many  uses of 8xx systems recently with ucode requirements.
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I am completely puzzled now.  It looks like your stable, but old 
linux-2.4 tree has a much better selection of 8xx drivers compared to 
the linuxppc_2_4_devel. Why is that? What do you recommend for a new 
MPC852T-based development? Can the drivers be dropped into the newer 
tree or more serious backporting effort is needed?

Thanks,
Vladimir