[PATCH 0/12] Add support for QE and 8360EMDS board -v2

[Vitaly Bordug]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:09:14 +0800
"Li Yang" <LeoLi at freescale.com> wrote:

> On 9/28/06, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 28, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Li Yang wrote:
> >
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > The series of patches add generic QE infrastructure called
> > > qe_lib, and MPC8360EMDS board support.  Qe_lib is used by
> > > QE device drivers such as ucc_geth driver.
> > >
> > > This version updates QE interrupt controller to use new irq
> > > mapping mechanism, addresses all the comments received with
> > > last submission and includes some style fixes.
> > >
> > > v2 change: Change to use device tree for BCSR and MURAM;
> > > Remove I/O port interrupt handling code as it is not generic
> > > enough.
> >
> > Before accepting any of this code, I'd like to see what the drivers
> > look like that are using it.  Its hard to make significant comments w/
> > o seeing what the consumers of all the 'lib' code look like.
> 
> Current in-tree user of the lib is driver/net/ucc_geth.c.  There is
> also QE ATM driver which is included in Alex's 8360sar project.  QE
> USB host/client drivers are in Freescale LTIB BSP.
> 

The point is we are following the way a bit opposite then normal - 
usually a bunch of similar stuff is wrapped into a library,
and here we've made a library and trying to fit all the upcoming into.

I'd suggest to look at it as "add new soc family" approach, not more.
OTOH, I am expecting it to become sort of versatile lib some time later...

Kumar, 

no serial driver I'm aware of..

-- 
Sincerely, 
Vitaly