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From: John Carlson <carlsj@yahoo.com>
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--- "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> 	I am just polishing off bringup a Xilinx Virtex
> IV/ppc405 system with
> minimal hardware under 2.6.14.4.
> 	I have a collection of patches that I can submit
> for the specific,
> board, for the Virtex IV, for board specific
> hardware, ...
> 	Additionally I have 2 complete boot loader through
> full serial driver
> implementations of a pseudo serial console driver
> for this board when it
> is in a HOST development system - it is a compact
> flash card normally
> plugged into a PC during development and using the
> PC as the console,
> and a complete serial driver chain for the Xilinx
> UartLite as a console
> when not in a Host, or as a general serial driver.
> The Xilinx Driver is
> based heavily on other 2.6 driver/serial drivers and
> not the 2.4
> implementation from Xilinx.
> 
> 	Is this list the right place to submit this ?
> 	Is there a HOWTO addressing the rules/procedures to
> do so.

Look in the Documentation directory, specificly the
two files
SubmittingDrivers and SubmittingPatches where the
correct
procedure is explained.

> 
> 	I have not looked at the kernel style guides, but
> the style of this
> code is pretty much identical to other Kernel code.
> The UartLite driver
> is virtually indistinguishable from other
> driver/serial drivers except
> the few places where hardware differences require
> changes, and that
> there is a full tree of end-end support similar to
> what exists for the
> 8250's.
> 
> David H. Lynch Jr.
> DLA Systems
> 354 Rudy Dam Rd.
> Lititz, PA 17543
> 717.627.3770
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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John Carlson
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