From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PPC32: New OCP core support
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:32:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040512063236.C8797@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c437cd$52469fc0$d100000a@sbs2003.local>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:00:46AM +0100
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:00:46AM +0100, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> 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 :)
I incorporated a more polished version into the updated patch I just
sent.
Thanks.
-Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-12 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-12 0:01 [PATCH 1/2] PPC32: New OCP core support Matt Porter
2004-05-12 0:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 1:01 ` Matt Porter
2004-05-12 1:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 3:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 13:32 ` Matt Porter [this message]
2004-05-12 3:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 1:45 ` Matt Porter
2004-05-12 2:00 ` Matt Porter
2004-05-12 0:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 1:06 ` Matt Porter
2004-05-12 1:45 ` Matt Porter
2004-05-12 2:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-12 3:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-12 1:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 3:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 3:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 5:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-12 6:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-12 13:39 ` Matt Porter
2004-05-12 6:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
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