On Jul 20, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Alex Zeffertt wrote: > >> Any reason we dont try to get your work up stream into the >> mainline kernel? >> - kumar > > I'd like to see it upstreamed - the more people who use it the more > help I get! > > However, mpc8360sar is built on Freescale's BSP which adds basic > support for the > board, the MPC832xE-MDS, to the stock linux kernel. This support > consists of the > following patches: > > Patch0 : patch-2.6.11.bz2 > Patch1 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8349e-general-20060414.patch > Patch2 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8349e-pci-3.patch > Patch3 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8349e-pci-agent.patch > Patch4 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8349e-watchdog.patch > Patch5 : linux-2.6.11-mpc83xx-sec2.patch > Patch6 : mpc832x-sec2v15-config-1.patch > Patch7 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8349e-usb-gadget.patch > Patch8 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8349e-usb-host.patch > Patch9 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8360-general-1.patch > Patch10 : linux-2.6.11-mpc8360-pci-agent.patch > Patch11 : linux-2.6.11-mpc832x-basic-4.patch > Patch12 : linux-2.6.11-mpc832x-pci-agent.patch > Patch13 : linux-2.6.11-mpc832x-spi-1.patch > Patch14 : linux-2.6.11-mpc832x-BIT.patch > Patch15 : linux-2.6.11-mpc83xx-ct-1.patch > Patch16 : linux-2.6.11-mpc832x-usb-gadget.patch > Patch17 : linux-2.6.11-mpc832x-atm-1.patch > > I guess there's no point upstreaming mpc8360sar until freescale have > upstreamed these patches (and ported them to the current kernel).
True, a large number of these patches are upstream, and if I had access to MPC836x or MPC832x HW I'd work on getting the others that are reasonable. > Alex > > PS It's probable that mpc8360sar actually only requires a handful of > the above patches to be applied. Agreed. - kumar
