Re: [PATCH 1/2] PPC32: New OCP core support

Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12T02:57:38Z

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 :)