Hi Ralf, since I noticed that you are working on the titan_ge driver, I think it is time to let you know that I am currently reworking that driver in the context of a new platform port. The primary goal is to cleanly separate the titan_ge driver from the yosemite platform and to make it usable with other RM9000-based platforms as well. The work is rather advanced, I did implement all the necessary changes and am now debugging through the thing to make it work. During the process I found quite a number of issues with the old driver that I fixed along the way. The main points addressed by my work are these: - Do no longer monopolize the message interrupt, so the titan_ge can coexist with other drivers for OCDs. - Do not refuse to initialize if the link is down. This would prevent a statically linked kernel from booting if no network cord was attached :-( - Properly allocate and deallocate any resources used. - Introduce a mapping layer, so that the driver can be told to use any ethernet slice for any port number, and even leave alone slices so they can be used for different purposes (GPI). - Introduce a general OCD access framework that is designed to be useful for new platform ports. I will submit my work work for review once it is completed (since I am working on it full time, that should not take too long). Until then, I'd like to avoid unnecessary duplication of work, so I am announcing this. tk -- -------------------------------------------------- Thomas Koeller, Software Development Basler Vision Technologies thomas dot koeller at baslerweb dot com http://www.baslerweb.com ==============================
