MPC5200/Lite5200 and ethernet

[Dale Farnsworth]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:28:23PM +0400, Andrey Volkov wrote:
> > I sent patches to Sylvain in August 2004 with 5200 FEC support,
> > including my rewrite of the bestcomm FEC code.  I've bugged him
> > about it a few times, and I don't know why he hasn't made it available.
> > I haven't done much with the 5200 since then.  I'm traveling now and
> > have some other pressing issues, but I'll try to post what
> > I have in the next couple of weeks.
> > 
> > -Dale
> 
> Dale, don't worry, Sylvain public your patches in himself src tree
> (http://www.246tnt.com/mpc52xx/) at August/September,2004.
> But, after that, OCP infra was dropped in kernel, and, hence, this
> driver was not sent to Andrew Morton (Bestcomm stuff, until now, OCP
> depended). And no one find time to convert Bestcomm to platform bus
> model :(.
> 
> I planned start this job at July/August, so if someone wish to do it NOW
> (June) - welcome.

Thank you Andrey, and my apologies to Sylvain.  I didn't realize that
they were available.  I'll take a look at converting to the platform bus
model, but it will be at least a week before I start.

-Dale