[RFC PATCH 5/5] CELL bogus_console port to hvc_console backend driver

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at redhat.com
Tue Dec 6 22:31:17 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:17 -0600, Eric V Van hensbergen wrote:
> I suppose if there is sufficient pull I could push them at any time -- I
> haven't gone down this path because I'm not sure how I feel including
> simulator drivers in the mainline kernel tree.  If the linuxppc64 folks
> think this is valuable, I'd be happy to clean-up the drivers a bit more
> and submit a patch.

They're fairly self-contained and harmless -- I think it would be good
to merge them.

The bogusdisk driver wants a proper major number assigned, and it wants
to look in the device tree for /mambo/bogusdisc nodes (which we can
trivially hack the sim's tcl script to provide).

-- 
dwmw2





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