From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Keith J Outwater" <kjoutwater@raytheon.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet driver for Linux kernel 2.6 running on ML403
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:57:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528646bc0609141557s4c126f4fh61f1ca8a21a628ad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF4E2E74F4.771A25A6-ON072571E9.00554898-072571E9.0056BF13@mck.us.ray.com>
On 9/14/06, Keith J Outwater <kjoutwater@raytheon.com> wrote:
> >
> > So what direction do we (as the community) want to go for supporting
> > Xilinx IP in the Linux kernel?
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but running Linux on Virtex FPGAs is
> something I simply have to be able to do. With or without Xilinx
> drivers, I think the kernel needs to support Xilinx hardware.
ditto
>
> >
> > If we reject the Xilinx driver code, then we either have to do without
> > Xilinx support in mainline, or we need to write new drivers that
> > address the above issues (support multiple IP versions, etc). The
> > Xilinx support in mainline right now does not use any Xilinx code.
> > (Xilinx PIC and UART).
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> As painful as it may be, maybe we just write drivers from scratch and
> try to track changes in the IP.
That's kind of the direction I'm leaning too.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
grant.likely@secretlab.ca
(403) 399-0195
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2006-09-14 1:40 ` Ethernet driver for Linux kernel 2.6 running on ML403 Aleck Lin
2006-09-14 1:48 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-09-14 1:52 ` Grant Likely
2006-09-14 11:18 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-14 13:53 ` Michael Galassi
2006-09-14 14:34 ` Grant Likely
2006-09-14 15:47 ` Keith J Outwater
2006-09-14 22:57 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2006-09-19 7:48 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-09-19 14:17 ` Grant Likely
2006-09-19 20:10 ` Grant Likely
2006-09-19 20:40 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-19 21:27 ` Grant Likely
2006-09-24 5:42 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-24 14:35 ` Grant Likely
2006-09-14 23:02 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-14 16:40 John Bonesio
2006-09-14 17:36 ` Keith J Outwater
2006-09-14 22:02 ` T Ziomek
2006-09-14 23:16 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-14 22:49 ` Grant Likely
2006-09-15 16:11 ` T Ziomek
2006-09-19 10:13 ` Peter Korsgaard
2006-09-19 18:06 ` Andrew
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-14 17:52 John Bonesio
2006-09-14 23:08 ` Keith J Outwater
2006-09-15 0:08 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-15 1:14 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-15 19:13 John Bonesio
2006-09-19 14:16 ` Grant Likely
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