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
> 
> 
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