Juha Niskanen wrote:
> 2007/6/4, Wolfgang Grandegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Juha Niskanen wrote:
>>> 2007/6/3, Wolfgang Grandegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>>>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>> Juha Niskanen wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am porting mpc8260 fcc_enet.c from 2.6.18 to rtnet,
>>>>> I recommend using the a more recent version of Linux with the
>>>>> arch/powerpc tree. The arch/ppc tree is not maintained any more. Any
>>>>> chance to switch?
>>>> I just had a look into 2.6.21. There is now a generic Freescale ethernet
>>>> driver in drivers/net/fs_enet supporting SCC, FEC and FCC. It _really_
>>>> makes sense to port this driver to RTnet.
>>> I allready try it, but can't get it working even without rt-patches.
>>> I didn't spend mutch time for it. But it is in plan.
>> What did you try? Backporting this driver to 2.6.18? This will not be a
>> trivial task, of course.
> 
> It is already in 2.6.18, but I tried also 2.6.21.

Ah, you are right. In arch/ppc of 2.6.18 it's used by 85xx and in 
2.6.21 by 8272 as well. Likely adaption to 8260 will take some effort, 
but that's the right way to go. Getting RTnet to work with the old FCC 
driver is a good exercise, at least.

Wolfgang.


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