From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265093AbUELNhs (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 09:37:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265026AbUELNhY (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 09:37:24 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao06.cox.net ([68.230.241.33]:29396 "EHLO fed1rmmtao06.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265048AbUELNfR (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 09:35:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:32:36 -0700 From: Matt Porter 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 Message-ID: <20040512063236.C8797@home.com> References: <20040511170150.A4743@home.com> <200405120039.i4C0dHs0010426@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040511180144.A4901@home.com> <000001c437cd$52469fc0$d100000a@sbs2003.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000001c437cd$52469fc0$d100000a@sbs2003.local>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:00:46AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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