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

[Li Yang-r58472]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:37 AM
> To: Li Yang-r58472
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org; paulus at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] Add support for QE and 8360EMDS board -v2
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Li Yang 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.
> 
> is there a serial driver?

No.  It is not very necessary to have serial support for QE, as there is
separate DUART SoC.  We can use 8250 serial driver for that.

- Leo