From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E77DDE20 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:49:23 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:48:13 +0300 From: Vitaly Bordug To: Josh Boyer Subject: Re: On-going 4xx porting Message-ID: <20071110024813.5cada553@kernel.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <1194645701.3207.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1194645701.3207.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:01:41 -0600 Josh Boyer wrote: > Hi All, > > For those interested, I have a few things I'd like to focus on for > 2.6.25 in regards to the current arch/powerpc 4xx porting effort. > Below is a brief list of drivers in no particular order: > > PCI support I'll look at that stuff once again. maybe it worths to head fir compromise solution in favor of replacing 32/64 ranges parsing func + a bunch of other things in one single step. > USB (440EP(x), etc) looks like we have code ready for that... > I2C Stefan's approach seems pretty close > GPIO > NDFC I'd rather follow platform device wrapper way.. Big NDFC of_device rework can be done anytime later. > RTC > > I'd also like to try and get the larger page size patches ported and > merged. If another hugetlbfs type patch shows up, that would be good > too. There is also the HW watchpoint support patch, and of course new > board ports. > > At some point we should really be able to have a single vmlinux be > wrapped with different zImage wrappers and .dts files and have it boot > on those various boards just fine. So I'll be looking at > accomplishing that as well. That should make new board ports fairly > easy to do. > just my $0.02... > josh > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev -- Sincerely, Vitaly