USB on MPC8272

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:43 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:

> Nathael PAJANI wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>>
>> I have to support USB hcd for an Actis board based on a MPC8248  
>> processor. I already have a 2.6.9 linux kernel running fine on it,  
>> and actualy have to use it rather than a newer one.
>> I'm actualy looking for existing or ongoing jobs.
>
> Dear Nathael,
> As far as I understand there are several drivers for the MPC8272  
> usb host controller, and none of them is in
> official kernel tree.
> There's a driver in Metrowerks BSP for linux 2.6 for MPC8272 (the  
> Freescale driver), an orignally mpc8xx driver by Brad Parker ported  
> to linux 2.4 for MPC8272 by Pantelis Antoniou, there ought to be  
> USB driver by ArabellaSW also.
> My driver ("http://cpm2usb.sourceforge.net./") is a port of the  
> Brad Parker's driver to linux 2.6 with some modifications.

And, ideally we would like to see one driver get into the linux  
source tree that everyone is happy with.  I'm told by someone that  
the FSL driver is suppose to have working host support "was tested/ 
verified with keyboard/mouse/diskdrives/network".

- kumar