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From: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
To: John Tyner <jtyner@cs.ucr.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make QSpan PCI work
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:05:00 -0800
John Tyner wrote:

> The following patch makes the QSpan PCI code compile and work on my 
> hardware. The patch is against 2.4, but I'm hoping it will still be
> viewed as useful since the code currently does not even compile (2.6
> is the same). I had to make a change to move the PCI setup later in
> the m8xx_setup code as well because the kernel would crash during the 
> pcibios_alloc_controller because the bootmem stuff had not come up
> yet.
> 
This looks interesting, but again would make a lot of sense for powerpc and 2.6.
Is that possible to have your patches rebased against 2.6, arch/ppc at least?

-- 
Sincerely, Vitaly