From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02FCBB70A3 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:04:06 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: linux support for freescale e5500 core? From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Chris Friesen In-Reply-To: <4C92998C.7000903@nortel.com> References: <4C9278CD.10607@genband.com> <20100916163911.6255d359@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net> <4C928FC5.9050700@genband.com> <1284674628.30449.98.camel@pasglop> <4C92998C.7000903@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:03:52 +1000 Message-ID: <1284681832.30449.101.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Chris Friesen , Scott Wood , paulus@samba.org, timur@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:26 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Sounds like a candidate for upstreaming the patch :-) > > As I recall we proposed upstreaming it a while back but there wasn't a > lot of interest since it's most useful in supporting poorly-written > legacy apps. :) Heh. Well as long as only 970 had that bit ... but with e5500 coming up with that too, I suppose it makes -some- sense. Let's at least look at the approach you took and we can decide based on how invasive/ugly it is :-) Cheers, Ben.