Fw: Question on I2C driver development for Motorola chips

[mds@paradyne.com (Mark Studebaker)]

Xianghua,
we appreciate your offer.
Of course any contribution must be GPL.
A consolidated driver would be helpful.
While we have PPC drivers in our tree, they may not get as much
use or maintenance as the drivers in the PPC-specific kernel branches
found elsewhere on the net.
You should consider where the best home for your consolidated
driver should be, and perhaps discuss it on the appropriate
PPC mailing list.

mds


Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Xianghua is trying to reach you to share your works on Motorola MPC
> drivers, so I am forwarding his message to you so that you can get in
> touch.
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:10:26 -0700
> From: Xiao Xianghua-r6aads <X.Xiao@motorola.com>
> To: "'sensors@stimpy.netroedge.com'" <sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com>
> Cc: Xiao Xianghua-r6aads <X.Xiao@motorola.com>
> Subject: Question on I2C driver development for Motorola chips
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm an engineer working in Motorola. I have a 'working' I2C driver for
> the new chip MPC8540/MPC8560 and I'm eager to add this driver to your
> CVS, and I hope it can be pushed to the linux kernel in the near future.
> 
> I noticed a MPC8245 I2C driver is under development by Mike Primm from
> your newdriver
> webpage(http://secure.netroedge.com/%7Elm78/newdrivers.html), and I'm
> very interested in his progress, however there is no way for me to reach
> him(there is no email address :( ). Additionally, there is another Linux
> I2C driver for MPC824x(http://www.humboldt.co.uk/mpc10xi2c.html).
> Include my driver, all of us are trying to do the same thing because
> MPC8540/MPC8560/MPC824x/MPC107 are having the similar I2C design. I
> would like to find a way to provide a generic I2C for all these Motorola
> chips.
> 
> I'm also interested in getting the current Motorola 8xx I2C driver a new
> name if possible, because that driver can also be shared by
> 8xx/82xx/83xx(forthcoming new chip), i.e. any Motorola chip with a
> CPM(Communication Process Module) part on it.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your helps.
> 
> Xianghua
> 
> --
> Jean Delvare
> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/