From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <493FCB98.7000803@aimvalley.nl> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:00:56 +0100 From: Norbert van Bolhuis MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, LinuxPPC-Embedded Subject: some (MPC8313) Freescale patches not in latest kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I'm preparing the latest (2.6.28-rc7) linux kernel for an MPC8313 based project that's about to start. Things seems to work great with the base 2.6.28-rc7 kernel. On our MPC8313E-RDB the kernel boots without problems, ethernet (with eTSEC2/eth1) works and even eTSEC1/eth0 has a 1gbit link. Most other peripherals seems to work as well, I never really tried them though. However, the Freescale MPC8313 BSP (and http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/) includes a few patches which I believe I need and/or are useful, for instance: linux-fsl-2.6.23-MPC8313ERDB-ETSEC27-errata-workaround.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-MPC8313ERDB-IEEE-1588.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-GIANFAR_PARAMETER_ADJUST.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-GIANFAR_SKB_BUFFER_RECYCLING_SUPPORT.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-GIANFAR_SKB_BUFFER_RECYCLING_SUPPORT-2.patch These patches are not in the latest (2.6.28-rc7) linux kernel nor in any of the powerpc devlopment trees (e.g. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git) Of course users like me can simply check out the patches and apply them if needed for the project. Before I do that I would just like to understand why they're not in. They're not MPC8313(-RDB) specific and they seem very useful to me. Is it lack of time/importance ?