Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> 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".
>
We have that FS driver rework in progress, but even now it's quite hard to
estimate the finish. The result will proceed upstream, anyway, but this is
long-term I afraid.
> - kumar
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Sincerely,
Vitaly
