Hi Robin, just to complete the bug fixes for the P1010 BSP sent to freescale, that have not been responded by them ... %-[
Here's a fix for their 2.6.35.x kernel that is in the 2.6.35 stable tree but not in their BSP: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/socketcan-users/2011-July/001991.html Regards, Oliver On 03.08.2011 23:01, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: > Hey Robin, > > do you know "Mike Brown <mtb at sgi dot com>", he's working with the > powerpc flexcan, too. > > On 08/03/2011 09:44 PM, Robin Holt wrote: >> I am trying to get the current kernel working with either Greg KH's >> linux-3.0.y stable release tree or Linus' current tree. I have it >> compiling and booting, but the flexcan driver's flexcan_probe() function >> never gets called. >> >> I have made minor changes to the source to get it to compile. The BSP >> from freescale based upon the 2.6.35 kernel has a flexcan driver which is >> significantly different from the current driver. Some of the differences >> are to handle the of_platform changes they have in that version of >> their kernel. > > Freescale decided not to mainline their flexcan changes, moreover they > introduces some bugs into the driver. I send some bugfixes but they > didn't react. > > https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/socketcan-users/2011-July/001989.html > https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/socketcan-users/2011-July/001990.html > https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/socketcan-users/2011-July/001986.html > >> Does anybody know what needs to be done to get the flexcan driver working >> for the P1010 processor? Any suggestions on things I may need to do to >> get it working? Any guidance at all will be very welcome. > > I started hacking a bit on the driver, but as I don't have any hardware, > not clients willing to sponsor (hint, hint!) the work, it's not > bit-rotting in my git. Maybe it helps you (thee uppermost patches): > > http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=mkl/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/can/flexcan-dt/net-next > > cheers, Marc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Socketcan-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-users _______________________________________________ Socketcan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-users
