Hi Heiner, On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:14:10PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > I'd like to port Clause 45 PHY support and more recent Linux phylib > extensions to Barebox. Ideally it should be possible later to apply > most Linux patches as-is on Barebox. Before I start two questions: > > - Any guidelines what it typically takes to port Linux Kernel code > to Barebox? (I suppose at least removing mutexes + spinlocks, changing > all interrupts to polling) Well yes, and that's about it. Sometimes you have to simplify the code, sometimes you have to update some header files we have from Linux. > - Especially regarding drivers/net/phy: any plans I should be aware of? Much of the code is from Linux, but there's also much barebox original code. I don't think the goal should be that it looks identically in the end. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
