Re: RFC: MPC5200 PSC AC97 driver

["Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
>
>  Grant Likely wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  Juergen Beisert wrote:
> > >
> >
> > BTW, is anyone trying to shepherd this driver into the ALSA tree?  Its
> > out of my area of expertise and responsibility, so I haven't been
> > pursuing it.
> >
>
>  We (well, I) were going to try but we got some oopses; from one thing or
> another,
>  but with Juergen's fixes and cell-index in place, now it plays audio.
>
>  Now it can be pushed to ALSA on that basis, but I'm still trying to get my
>  head around where we need to throw patches and if it goes into ALSA Drivers
>  first or the kernel or both? It's kind of convoluted compared to the ease
>  of just CC'ing netdev or linux-ide..
>
>  If you want to push it, please do, but also I guess it'll need to be
> bundled
>  with the cell-index patch for the fixups (we couldn't get it to make the
>  property for some odd reason) or a change to using addresses in the driver
>  for PSC selection (Juergen's original patch did this anyway)

I can pick up the cell-index patch, but I won't pick up the ALSA
stuff; that's not my tree.  Post the driver patch to the alsa list
(but still cc linuxppc and me).  The driver needs to go into ALSA
drivers first.  The kernel is updated from there.

Cheers,
g.


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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.