[RFC][PATCH 2.6.12-rc2 3/3] FCC Ethernet PlatformDevice

[Pantelis Antoniou]

Jonathan Masel wrote:
> Are you interested in looking at our Resource Manager? It works in 2.4 and
> 2.6 kernels for a wide range of PQ's (virtually all of them).
> 
> It seems to take some of these ideas, but further. The basic idea is to
> handle at all on-chip resources in an orderly and robust way (not just
> modularly, but that too). We allocate parallel port pins, clocks (BRG or
> CLK), internal DPRAM and communication channels to "consumers". Board
> specific (if/where needed) are all located in a single per-board file.
> Allocation is all dynamic and we can check that we're not conflicting with
> prior requests. There are quite a few other goodies too (display all
> consumers to which certain resources are allocated, etc).
> 
> This lets us easily handle dynamic configurations. E.g. configure pins for
> I2C during reset or start-up, modify them later on when you need ATM (they
> are multiplexed on the same pins on several devices). Or, as you mentioned,
> dynamic modules - but even when they have potentially conflicting requests.
> 
> And it is one, simple to use mechanism that we use across all devices
> (adapted for PQ1, PQ2 and PQ3).
> 
> If you're interested, please let me know. We'd be happy to contribute it if
> it will help.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 

Hi Jonathan.

This is a good time for everyone working in freescale platforms to
just put on the table what it uses and see if a common ground can
be found.

So please post the files, and some comments on how they work.

Regards

Pantelis