New PowerQUICC III support

[Kumar Gala]

Felix,

The expectation is that the existing gianfar driver should work on 
8548.  However until its tried out we will not know for sure.

- kumar

On Mar 21, 2005, at 3:05 AM, Felix Radensky wrote:

>  Hi, Kumar
>
>  Thanks for answering. There isn't much info regarding new PQ3 chips on
>  Freescale site, so It's hard to tell how similar they are to 
> 8540/8560.
>  I'm interested in basic support and Gigabit ethernet driver. Are you 
> saying
>  that gianfar driver will work with new PQ3 chips ?
>
>  Thanks a lot.
>
>  Felix.
>
>  On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 12:43 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>  Felix,
>
>  Is there something specific about the new PQ3 chips you are looking
>  for?  The basic support that is in the kernel for the existing PQ3 
> line
>  (8540, 8541, 8555, 8560) should work on these devices w/o much change.
>
>  - kumar
>
>  On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:09 AM, Felix Radensky wrote:
>
>  >  Hi, folks
>  >
>  >  Are there any plans to support new PowerQUICC III models (e.g. 
> 8543,
>  > 8548)
>  >  in the near future ? Is anyone working on it ?
>  >
>  >  TIA.
>  >
>  >  Felix. <ATT325611.txt>
>
>