On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:32:59AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > General comments on the WRT code: > > The code is full of "Broadcom Proprietary" and "All Rights Reserved" > notices. Does anyone have a clear written statement from Broadcom that > it's redistributable? (If you're depending on the GPL release > requirements to justify relicensing, clear documentation of the chain of > release would be helpful.) Broadcom's interpretation of these comments is that they don't contradict the GPL. > I think there are other OCP busses supported in the kernel; ISTR seeing > some PPC SoC from IBM that uses OCP... so perhaps this should be brought > up on l-k for general discussion. > > But it's challenging to come up with a useful abstraction that covers > both the b44 scenario and the SoC scenario. OCP is basically ISA on steroids - no configuration space, no nothing so there is not terribly much OCP code that could potencially be shared. Right now we treat OCP devices such as on PMC-Sierra's RM9000 series as platform devices. I'm clearly less than impressed by OCP ... Ralf
