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

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 29 23:51:11 EST 2006


On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:21 PM, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:

>> -----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.

Are there any examples of drivers for a UCC slow channel?

- k



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