[PATCH v2] serial: add support for the cell network processor NWP device
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jan 7 14:08:14 EST 2009
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:53 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Benjamin Krill <ben at codiert.org>
>
> Add support for the nwp serial device which is connected to a DCR bus. It
> uses the of_serial device driver to determine necessary properties from
> the device tree. The supported device is added as serial port number 84.
>
> NWP stands for network processor and it is part of the QPACE - Quantum
> Chromodynamics Parallel Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine project.
> The implementation is a lightweight uart implementation with the focus
> to consume as little resources as possible and it is connected to a
> DCR bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Krill <ben at codiert.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
There have been no comment nor objection about this patch.
Andrew, do we have a serial maintainer or should I merge it via the
powerpc tree ?
Cheers,
Ben.
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