Porting to /arch/powerpc

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Fri Oct 26 08:26:17 EST 2007


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> @ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Scott Wood
> Sent: den 26 oktober 2007 00:08
> To: Rune Torgersen
> Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: Porting to /arch/powerpc
> 
> Rune Torgersen wrote:
> > Is there a good platform/documents to look at for doing a board port
> > from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc?
> > I'm porting a 8266/8280 based board with PCI and 2 FCC ethernets
> > connected phy-less to a switch.
> 
> Look at head-of-tree for 82xx stuff (lots of changes since 2.6.23)... 
> any of the 82xx boards in arch/powerpc should be good to look at.
> 
> The fs_enet driver doesn't currently support phy-less 
> directly, but you 
> may be able to do something with the fixed phy driver.

How is PHY less support supposed to be impl.? I would like
to do the same for ucc_geth. I once sent a patch that made
the PHY optional, but it never made into the driver.

   Jocke

> 
> -Scott



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