From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.10]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D485DDDF5 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:19:28 +1000 (EST) To: "Nicholas Hickman" From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: SPI driver? Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:50:56 EDT." <8140AAF341CC904BA92C3D6A5A1909782F0D4F@ditech-1.ditechllc.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:19:26 +0200 Sender: wd@denx.de Message-Id: <20070911201926.2B0EA247CE@gemini.denx.de> Cc: Hesam.Kohanteb@Sun.COM, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , In message <8140AAF341CC904BA92C3D6A5A1909782F0D4F@ditech-1.ditechllc.com> you wrote: > I am also in search of this, or some information about one. Please let > me know if you find anything. > > I ran across an existing platform that used an mpc8270. During boot up > it displayed: > [ 17.828513] SPIDriver: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. > [ 17.865052] CPM SPI Driver: $Revision: 1.0 $ wd@denx.de > > I have been all over denx and have not been able to find it. This > particular system used the SPI for a DSP chip. Probably somebody copied and modified a driver they found in our trees. We release all such code under GPL... You can find SPI driver code in our old linuxppc_2_4_devel tree, but this does not include support for MPC82xx; and then there is an ancient (5+ years) 82xx SPI driver in our linux-2.4 (2.4.4) kernel tree. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de Thought for the day: What if there were no hypothetical situations?