Re: 8xx drivers for 2.6

[Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>]

Tom Rini wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:44:50PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
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>>Tom Rini wrote:
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>>>Ok. I've gone and ported the 8xx serial driver, and other misc 8xx
>>>things up to what 2.6 wants them to be, as well as a few of the
>>>simpler changes to head_8xx.S.
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>>Thanks. So, does the kernel at least compile now? :-)
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>Compiles, links, boots and happily dies inside of head_8xx.S :)
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>>>...and in 2.6 having request_8xxirq becomes much uglier because of
>>>the irqreturn_t stuff
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>>I'm finally going to update this. I've got a pretty good implemenation
>>of the cascaded controller stuff for the 8560, once I get this
>>debugged I'll port it here.
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>Sounds like a plan.
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>>>Dan, if you have _anything_ done for head_8xx.S can you please post
>>>it?
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>>Yeah, maybe I can do some debug now, too.
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>Hopefully :)
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>--
>Tom Rini
>http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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That sounds nice.

Any chance to push the changes to the linuxppc-2.5 tree for us poor saps?
It doesn't have to work or anything, just give us something to work...

Regards

Pantelis


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