[MPC8349ITX] USB Init with PPC arch

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jan 24 03:18:34 EST 2007


On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Benjamin Zores wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:19:06 -0600
> Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>> What are these features?
>
> External RT patch that only supports PPC arch atm.
> Also I've encountered some stability issues with PowerPC branch
> (card hangs after some time for undetermined reason).

Do you get an oops on the hang?  would be useful to know if we have  
an issue in arch/powerpc

>> If you are forward porting the Freescale patches and not using the in
>> kernel driver that would explain the issue.  There are bugs in the
>> Freescale driver that have been fixed in the driver that is in the
>> kernel.
>
> I only ported what needs to be i.e. the platform initialization part.
> I'm using the regular USB drivers (EHCI-FSL) from vanilla 2.6.19,  
> this part
> hasn't be ported from old 2.6.13 BSP code (which would have been  
> useless).
>
> The goal of the patch i've sent early is to init the USB bus the  
> same way
> it is done by OF device tree in arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c (but  
> for PPC).
>
> Does it sounds ok to you ?

that sounds reasonable.

Take a look at this patch from Randy Vinson that adds support to arch/ 
ppc for USB.

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2006-January/021773.html

- k



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