From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:55:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:65183 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024099AbXHGMzZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:55:25 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l77CtMtv023898; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:55:22 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l77CtLiU023897; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:55:21 +0100 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:55:21 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Aurelien Jarno Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Michael Buesch , Waldemar Brodkorb , Felix Fietkau , Florian Schirmer Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/4] MIPS BCM947xx CPUs support Message-ID: <20070807125521.GA23739@linux-mips.org> References: <20070806150701.GE24308@hall.aurel32.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070806150701.GE24308@hall.aurel32.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 16106 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:07:01PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The following series of patches add basic support for the BCM947xx > CPUs. CFE support still needs work and thus is not included in those > patches, so the command line has to be included in the kernel. > Everything else is fully functional and the resulting kernel works > fine on a Netgear WGT634U. Any reason why not to simply share the CFE related code with what the Broadcom Sibyte family of chips are using? > I am submitting those patches for inclusion into -mm as they depend > on features that are not present in the linux-mips git tree, but are > present in the -mm series, namely Sonic Silicon Backplane bus support. That won't fly as akpm is pulling from the MIPS tree also, so there will be conflicts really soon. Ralf