[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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