From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.179]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F08DDE33 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:27:07 +1000 (EST) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c29so1240484ika for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <528646bc0704150727p1583132ck5455a36782e4dbcc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:27:05 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@gmail.com To: "Mohammad Sadegh Sadri" Subject: Re: Mr Grant Likely's New Patches for 2.6 Kernel and Xilinx FPGA ( Virtex-4 & Virtex-2 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: Cc: Linux PPC List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 4/15/07, Mohammad Sadegh Sadri wrote: > > Hi > > - Are these patches going to be part of 2.6.22 kernel? so we should wait a little and then using 2.6.22 we will have builtin support for sys ace without applying any new patches? I would *like* them to become part of 2.6.22, but that really depends on how well they are received, and if Paull will pick up arch/ppc patches. > - Do we still new to apply the paulus patch to the main kernel so that we can have hard TEMAC support? Or you have a same program as sys ace for it? No, I did not include TEMAC support. However, I will publish my git tree tomorrow which will include the TEMAC driver. > - Actually As a beginner I could not understand what are the rest of the patches > released by Grant, I understood that one is for sys ace , but the others? Do I > really need to apply them to for example , my 2.6.20.4 kernel? You don't need to if you've got a working solution. But these patches should make it easier to build a working virtex kernel when using Linus' tree. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. grant.likely@secretlab.ca (403) 399-0195