8xx drivers for 2.6

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Dec 16 03:18:15 EST 2003


On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:13:06PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:44:50PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
> >>Tom Rini wrote:
> >>
> >>>Ok. I've gone and ported the 8xx serial driver, and other misc 8xx
> >>>things up to what 2.6 wants them to be, as well as a few of the
> >>>simpler changes to head_8xx.S.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Thanks. So, does the kernel at least compile now? :-)
> >>
> >
> >Compiles, links, boots and happily dies inside of head_8xx.S :)
> >
> >>>...and in 2.6 having request_8xxirq becomes much uglier because of
> >>>the irqreturn_t stuff
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'm finally going to update this. I've got a pretty good implemenation
> >>of the cascaded controller stuff for the 8560, once I get this
> >>debugged I'll port it here.
> >
> >Sounds like a plan.
> >
> >>>Dan, if you have _anything_ done for head_8xx.S can you please post
> >>>it?
> >>>
> >>Yeah, maybe I can do some debug now, too.
> >>
> >
> >Hopefully :)
>
> That sounds nice.
>
> Any chance to push the changes to the linuxppc-2.5 tree for us poor saps?
> It doesn't have to work or anything, just give us something to work...

Sure, done.

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