On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:43:26AM -0700, Steve Calfee wrote: > On 05/25/2012 02:49 AM, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > >Richard Zhao<richard.zhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >>I'm not clear with the history. Does Chipidea only have one IP? > >As far as their USB controllers go, there are several versions with > >different features and register layouts, but essentially similar. I want > >to support all of them with this driver. As for the other IPs designed > >by chipidea -- I have no idea about those, but I don't think we should > >care. > > > >Regards, > >-- > >Alex > > > As far as I know ARC created the IP and sold the IP for a few years > Then Transdimension bought the IP and sold it for years > Then Chipidea bought the IP > Then Mips bought Chipidea including the IP > and Mips sold the IP to Synopsys It's a long story :) Because Chipidea does not exist any longer, so I guess there'll be no naming conflicts if we just use ci_xxx. Thanks Richard > > It is a very nice ehci core, follows the intel spec very well, with > extensions to support high speed gadgets and otg. Several IP > versions were done and are in several SOC cores, especially ARM. I > don't have a list. > > Regards, Steve > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
