From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Sieve: Server Sieve 2.2 thread-index: AcQ3zVJErHtSIADhR7uzTmx5OXUh/g== X-Sieve: Server Sieve 2.2 From: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Cc: , , , Message-ID: <000201c437cf$71273790$d100000a@sbs2003.local> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PPC32: New OCP core support In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 May 2004 18:01:44 PDT." <20040511180144.A4901@home.com> References: <20040511170150.A4743@home.com> <200405120039.i4C0dHs0010426@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040511180144.A4901@home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 04:15:56 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailing-List: X-Loop: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message X-me-spamlevel: not-spam Importance: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.132 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2004 03:00:46.0171 (UTC) FILETIME=[524B5AB0:01C437CD] Sender: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Envelope-to: paul@sumlocktest.fsnet.co.uk X-me-spamlevel: not-spam Priority: normal X-me-spamrating: 0.006940 On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:01:44 PDT, Matt Porter said: > Actually, OCP stands for On-Chip Peripheral and is the basic system > we've used in ppc32 for some time now to abstract dumb peripherals > behind a standard API. BenH did yet another rewrite of OCP in 2.4 > sometime ago and I picked up that work to port to 2.6 and the new > device model. It is a software abstraction, and easily allows us to > plug in SoC descriptors when new chips come out and use standard apis > to modify device entries on a per-board basis during "setup_arch() > time". It used to be PPC4xx-specific, but now is being used by > PPC85xx, MV64xxx, and MPC52xx based PPC systems. "Now", meaning that > the respective developers for those parts are using the OCP working > tree to base their 2.6 ports off of. Wrap a /* */ around that paragraph and add it to the top of ppc/syslib/ocp.c :) ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/