Re: MPC8555 USB host support

[Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>]

Hmm, we should understand what caveats it has and still look at  
getting it into mainline.

Also, are you aware of Freescale's driver for this?

- kumar

On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Vitaly Bordug wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Any reason not to get this driver into the kernel main line?
> I guess because this device is known to work in some specific  
> instance, but bot generic one. The best we can do is to consolidate  
> our efforts to make it more usable or state that it is impossible.
>
>> - kumar
>> On Nov 15, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>> Hans Schillstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mike
>>>> I'm working with a 8270 board and 2.6.12 kernel and searching  
>>>> for USB
>>>> drivers.
>>>>
>>>> Could you help me finding the files ?
>>>>
>>> I've opened a project on the SourceForge, http:// 
>>> cpm2usb.sourceforge.net. The file containing patch against  
>>> 2.6.12.3 can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ 
>>> cpm2usb.
>>>
>>>> I can help you with the testing.
>>>> What status do they have right now ?
>>>>
>>> The driver was developed on MPC8272ADS, but should go as well on  
>>> 8270 since they have the same USB host controller AFAIK.
>>> Currently, as far as I tested it works fine with full-speed  
>>> single device attached through hub, but fails is there are  
>>> transfers from/to several devices simultaneously.
>>> As for the code itself, it's far from being perfect.
>>>
>>>> Regards Hans
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --Sincerely yours,
>>> Mike Rapoport
>>>
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> -- 
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> Vitaly