Kumar Gala wrote: > > 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
Tony, can you let me know when CONFIG_MPC832XE_MDS support is upstreamed to a kernel.org kernel. I'll then try to get the mpc8360sar working with this kernel and then upstream it. Alex PS I'm not entirely sure how "upstreaming" is done.