Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Jason schrieb: >> Greg KH wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:13:35AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>> I think this is quite interesting... there's a lot of goodies >>>> out-of-mainline that should get merged... >>> Ok, what others do people know about? How about we start a list here. >>> Here are ones that I know about: >>> comedi >>> speakup >>> acer hotkey driver http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/ >>> acx wireless driver http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ >>> adm8211 wierless driver http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/adm8211/ >>> webcam driver http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html >>> ivtv video driver http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page >>> kqemu driver http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ >>> omnibook kernel driver http://sourceforge.net/projects/omnibook >>> panasonic hotkey driver http://www.da-cha.jp/letsnote >>> parallel port hardware >>> http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~voegelas/pcf.html >>> another webcam driver http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ >>> lirc (not going upstream due to developer not >>> wanting it there.) >>> >>> >>> Anyone know of others? >> >> Micronas Go7007. Driver is here [1], I personally use it with [2] for >> MythTV. I could pitch in on it as well. >> >> This would be my first work for lk, though. I'm relatively new to >> kernelspace. Recently, I patched Intel's [3] GPL and BSD code for the >> ixp400_eth driver to work against vanilla 2.6.18.8 running on an ixp425 >> (baby steps to current :-) ). >> >> Speaking of ixp400_eth, would it be possible to merge that one as well? >> They have a very clean licensing line. The patch to the kernel tree is >> GPL (for ixp400_eth.ko), the code outside the tree (for ixp400.ko) is >> BSD, and the firmware is IPL [4]. How big of an issue is the >> firmware/IPL? > > An even better ixp400 patch was posted by Krzysztof Halasa on lkml in > May 2007. There was some vivid discussion, but I didn't see any follow > ups since then. Do you have a link? > Speaking of which opens yet another Pandora's box - projects like > OpenWRT or NSLU2-Linux (which already use Krzysztof's ixp400 patches) > always patch the kernels quite a bit in order to support all these ARM > and MIPS devices... Slowly, some of these patches get merged into > mainline, though, but sometimes, it looks like they might need some help. The patch I've currently put together allows ixp400 code to compile against *vanilla* 2.6.18.8. I'm in the process of testing in now. Once I make sure it runs, I'll start moving the patch toward targeting the mainline kernel. I initially tried to make it compile against 2.6.23, but there were too many changes to do it right. So, I figured I'd start with 2.6.18.8 (only because it was the closest gentoo stable vanilla kernel to the version Intel/Timesys suggested using), then move up making small changes along the way. Jason.
