From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] serial: add support for the cell network processor NWP device
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:21:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106202143.b31b908e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231297694.14860.55.camel@pasglop>
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:08:14 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:53 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org>
> >
> > Add support for the nwp serial device which is connected to a DCR bus. It
> > uses the of_serial device driver to determine necessary properties from
> > the device tree. The supported device is added as serial port number 84.
> >
> > NWP stands for network processor and it is part of the QPACE - Quantum
> > Chromodynamics Parallel Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine project.
> > The implementation is a lightweight uart implementation with the focus
> > to consume as little resources as possible and it is connected to a
> > DCR bus.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> There have been no comment nor objection about this patch.
That doesn't mean anyone looked at it ;)
> Andrew, do we have a serial maintainer or should I merge it via the
> powerpc tree ?
OK by me. Maybe Alan wants to grab it.
My version is mucked up anyway - PORT_NWPSERIAL has the same value as
PORT_S3C6400.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-07 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 13:53 [PATCH v2] serial: add support for the cell network processor NWP device Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-07 3:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-01-07 4:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-07 8:11 ` Benjamin Krill
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