On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, christophe leroy wrote:
> >
> > I'm actually working on it. If I didn't send Russell anything yet that's
> > because I don't consider the patch ready yet.
> >
> > Since Brutus is the reference implementation for the SA1100, I consider
> > that it needs a working console i.e. keyboard and frame buffer driver
> > before it is merged in.
>
> Sure we need a working console, but a serial console is enough to
> begin, I don't think we absolutely need keyboard and frame buffer
> for the first time.
> I think it would be better to have all stuff in the same place,
> that would force people to make things compatible, I mean people maybe
> add things to kernel that are totally not compatible with brutus,
> making brutus port more and more hard, whereas they wouldn't have
> done this if the brutus code was in kernel tree.
On the other hand, I don't think it's a good thing to bother everybody
with stuff that still require to be tidied up. And SA1100 is pretty
modular -- it shares everything that is common with all ARMV processors
and all specific drivers are well separated from the rest. So it's
unlikely that there might be any major incompatibilities before the SA1100
stuff is actually merged.
> > And again, since I'm blind or visually impaired
> > or whatever... I can't do it (or don't want to do it) by myself. So if
> > anybody interested to do it please step on it. My 2.0.35 had suport for
> > it so it needs forward porting.
>
> Ok, if noone else is doing it, I'll try and do it as soon as I get
> a Brutus card
Great!
Nicolas Pitre, B. ing.
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