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Hi Tom,

> Not exactly what I was hoping to hear...
> 
> What are the reasons to not port these TQs to 2.6?
> Lack of resources? Not enough interest?

It's probably not enough interest.

However, the port should be fairly easy. Some time ago, I posted a
port for the Dbox2 hardware, which is also based on the MPC823 CPU.
You can use this as a starting point just by ripping off the DBox2
specific parts (you'd have to convert the device tree to v1 though):

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?person=1023&id=15875

Thanks,
Jochen