Re: HDLC drivers on 8260

[Mich Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>]

Hi,

On  19 Aug, this message from Alejandro C echoed through cyberspace:
> I've just started developing a driver to use the four SCCs (CPM of the 
> Motorola
> MPC8260) in the HDLC mode. I've found references to a HDLC driver
> somewhere on the internet, but I haven't been able to locate the
> source code. Does anyone know where to find this or something else I
> can use as an example/starting point?

I don't know a thing about the SCCs in the MPC8260, but you may want to
have a look at the Cyclades PC300 driver in the kernel. It does HDLC
(but I don't remember whether it's the PC300 driver or a generic HDLC
driver in the kernel). What HDLC do you wnat to implement? There is no
generic HDLC per se, but different framings using a HDLC-like framing.
Examples would be Cisco's IP over HDLC, or PPP.

For Cisco's HDLC, I added IP address autoconfiguration to the PC300
(submitted to the maintainer, but never found it's way into the official
kernels).

Cheers

Michel

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