I'm preparing the latest (2.6.28-rc7) linux kernel for an MPC8313 based project that's about to start.
Things seems to work great with the base 2.6.28-rc7 kernel. On our MPC8313E-RDB the kernel boots without problems, ethernet (with eTSEC2/eth1) works and even eTSEC1/eth0 has a 1gbit link. Most other peripherals seems to work as well, I never really tried them though. However, the Freescale MPC8313 BSP (and http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/) includes a few patches which I believe I need and/or are useful, for instance: linux-fsl-2.6.23-MPC8313ERDB-ETSEC27-errata-workaround.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-MPC8313ERDB-IEEE-1588.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-GIANFAR_PARAMETER_ADJUST.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-GIANFAR_SKB_BUFFER_RECYCLING_SUPPORT.patch linux-fsl-2.6.23-GIANFAR_SKB_BUFFER_RECYCLING_SUPPORT-2.patch These patches are not in the latest (2.6.28-rc7) linux kernel nor in any of the powerpc devlopment trees (e.g. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git) Of course users like me can simply check out the patches and apply them if needed for the project. Before I do that I would just like to understand why they're not in. They're not MPC8313(-RDB) specific and they seem very useful to me. Is it lack of time/importance ? _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
