Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The "current" stable kernel used on PowerMacs is Paul Mackerras tree and
> contains an old backport of the 2.3.x USB stack (one of the last version
> to use Greg old ohci.c driver). We use it because it's stable and appear
> to work fine with keyboards and mice on all macs out there. That mean
> that machines with USB-only kbds and mice could at least be used, which
> was a progress over previous stacks ;)
Didn't it work in the days of Inaky's driver stack? I remember when...
[snip]
> In the case of the macs, we have a quite huge batch of changes that has
> not been merged in the 2.2.x tree yet, mostly because those changes (that
> concern new machines support) were finished too late for inclusing in
> 2.2.14, and Alan wants only bug fixes in 2.2.15.
> Also, since we use this weird USB backport that may never end up in the
> "official" 2.2.x series, PowerMac users usually rely on kenrels
> maintained by Paul Mackerras (who is _the_ maintainer of the PowerMac port).
I last spoke to Paul about a month ago, when we did the talk on USB for
the local users group. For Randy and other developers: Paul said that he
wasn't reading the linux-usb mailing list because of high volume and no
time - I think the PPP problems and moving the linuxcare.au office were
the main reasons.
I will take along the zip drives (a 100 and a 250) to the next meeting
and talk to Paulus and maybe Dave Gibson about PowerPC support.
Brad
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