From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from outbound-mail-112.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-112.bluehost.com [69.89.24.2]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 937CFDDF42 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:18:50 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <48AB4532.5030708@dlasys.net> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:12:02 -0400 From: "David H. Lynch Jr." MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Linn Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC References: <48AA938C.4060309@dlasys.net> <20080819201445.F39181468062@mail206-wa4.bigfish.com> <48AB2E58.2050307@dlasys.net> <20080819205148.82EAC50060@mail88-dub.bigfish.com> <48AB38AF.6010007@dlasys.net> <20080819214207.084C115A8055@mail165-dub.bigfish.com> In-Reply-To: <20080819214207.084C115A8055@mail165-dub.bigfish.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Ben Hutchings , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Neuendorffer , linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , John Linn wrote: > > What about you getting all the review & testing done and then we > (Xilinx) will add the OF support to the driver? > > I doubt the powerpc mainline will take the driver without OF support. In > fact, we had to remove the platform bus support from the last driver > that we put into mainline for arch/powerpc. > That is perfectly fine with me. i will try to pull the xilinx git tree and see how much closer I can make the probe so that converting will be easier. > > > xilinx_lltemac is the preferred. > > I don't think using xilinx_lltemac should cause problems. Our Xilinx > Git tree has a xilinx_lltemac subdir that contains the non-flat driver > but that should be ok with your xilinx_lltemac.c file in the net > directory. > The next patch incarnation will have everything as xilinx_lltemac - including the file as xilinx_lltemac.c -- Dave Lynch DLA Systems Software Development: Embedded Linux 717.627.3770 dhlii@dlasys.net http://www.dlasys.net fax: 1.253.369.9244 Cell: 1.717.587.7774 Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein