Hi Lennert,
I was just about to start a similar project, so I'd like to use your
patch. However, when I pull it off of the URL you posted, it doesn't
apply. I suspect that the MARC software for posting email is screwing
up the patch format.
Could you email a copy of the patch to me?
Thanks,
Marty
On 2/21/06, Lennert Buytenhek <> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I figured that the forwarded message below might be of interest to some
> of you. Note that the 2.6 code that is being submitted upstream is still
> pretty rough and incomplete from a peripheral driver point of view, so I
> wouldn't advise it to anyone except experienced developers at this point.
>
> (I did all my ep93xx work so far on a TS-7250, which has been a pleasure
> to work with.)
>
>
> cheers,
> Lennert
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Lennert Buytenhek <> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:48:17 +0100
> From: Lennert Buytenhek <>
> To:
> Subject: [linux-cirrus] ep93xx 2.6 merge status
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
>
> Hi,
>
> Some days ago I rewrote the core ep93xx code for inclusion into the
> mainline 2.6 linux tree, the result of which is at:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=114046583321919&w=2
>
> Feedback so far from arm linux people has been positive. After adding
> the proper credits to that patch and cleaning up the loose ends, I'll
> submit it for inclusion post 2.6.16, and IMHO it has a good chance to
> go in.
>
> What we will have at that point is a mainstream kernel that supports the
> debug serial port and interrupt and timer subsystems. (The ep93xx serial
> port 'in the lab' appears to be compatible with the pl010 which is
> supported by the in-tree amba-pl010 driver, so that should then work
> too.) This work then needs to be merged back into Michael's ep93xx git
> tree (which is actually the bigger chunk of work) -- I am willing to help
> with that also.
>
> The reason that I didn't just use the cirrus-based 'core' kernel code
> from Michael's git tree is that that code quite simply had no chance of
> being merged upstream. It took me too long to realise this, and I did
> spend quite an amount of time on trying to get it into shape.
>
> After the ep93xx core code goes in, the way is clear for merging the
> peripheral drivers from Michael's tree one by one. I'd like to be the
> 'benevolent dictator' for that, since many of those drivers also need
> cleanup and/or rewriting and I have a fairly good idea of what needs
> to be done.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> My thanks go to Michael Burian and Ray Lehtiniemi for their key role in
> the ep93xx linux community so far.
>
>
> cheers,
> Lennert
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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