MPC8315ERDB PCI Express support status?

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Leon Woestenberg wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>
> can Freescale or any of the powerpc maintainers indicate to what
> extend PCI Express support for the MPC8315E processor has been merged
> to Linux mainline, or what is still needs review or attention?
>
> I could find u-boot and Linux patches provided by Freescale in their
> open-source patch pool:
>
> http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/
> http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/linux-fsl-2.6.24.3-MPC8315ERDB-pcie-INTx-support.patch
>
> but I could not easily identify what has been merged upstream.
>
>
> My first goal (and hardware on my desk) would be to test an Intel PCIe
> PRO/1000 Ethernet adapter, as a start to add a custom PCIe FPGA
> device.

No PCI-e support for 83xx has been merged in any mainline kernel.

- k