Re: BCM63xx merge progress

[Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 03:45:59 Hector Martin wrote:
> Maxime Bizon wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 01:25 +0100, Hector Martin wrote:
> >> Well, there's a commit (4059ddb4) that claims to "Add USB OHCI support",
> >> yet it only adds a #include to ohci-hcd.c and a few .h bits. The actual
> >> ohci-bcm63xx.c is missing, which means the OHCI driver probably won't
> >> even compile. It's also missing the relevant platform device stuff in
> >
> > I cannot find this commit in linus' tree nor linux-mips master, where
> > does it come from ?
> 
> Okay, nevermind, that was a screwup by me. At some point one of my
> OpenWRT patch test commits made its way onto the wrong local branch, and
> I didn't notice where it lived. Oops. (This commit was meant to be
> incomplete, it comes straight from the OpenWRT patch). I think I found
> the mips-bcm63xx (proper) patch, tried to search for it on my local
> repo, and this thing popped up and I didn't look at it closely enough.
> This is what I get for trying to work at 4am.
> 
> I take back the 'broken' then, we're just left with 'incomplete'. Makes
> quite a bit more sense now, sorry for the confusion.
> 
> > The remaining two patches that were not merged in 2.6.32 are on top of
> > this tree: http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux-bcm63xx.git
> >
> > They should apply with little difficulty on current upstream kernel and
> > besides the *_be stuffs that need to be cleaned up, they were ACKed by
> > the usb maintainer.
> 
> Cool, I'll see about applying them and working off of that. Thanks for
> the confirmation.
> 
> FWIW, I'm trying to reverse engineer Broadcom's DSL driver, which I hope
> will be useful so we can finally have a properly working OpenWRT
> firmware for DSL routers based on this firmware.

Good luck :)
-- 
WBR, Florian