On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Ardelean, Andrei wrote: > I am porting MIPS Linux from Malta board to a new board. On Malta board > network and USB devices reside on PCI bus. In my case the new video > processor contains MIPS core, network and USB controllers, and those > controllers registers are in the direct memory map of MIPS core, there > is no PCI bus. Give me some advice how to add Ethernet and USB drivers > to the Kernel. Do I need to create a new virtual platform bus/device or > the Kernel has already what I need? If all the peripheral h/w blocks are > memory mapped directly in MIPS processor core space, can I have a single > bus for all of them? Sounds like platform_device is what you're looking for. The MIPSnet driver in drivers/net/mipsnet.c is a very simple example. The devices are registered in arch/mips/mipssim/sim_platform.c. Ralf
