Hi Folks,

Sorry if this question is out of place for this list -- if it is, please point me to the proper place for this sort of question. It just seems like this might be the best place to ask.

I am looking at bunch of patches to the 2.6.25 kernel (primarily in the drivers) that are provided by freescale as part of the BSP that they provide for the MPC837x parts.

Most of these patches are in the 2.6.30 kernel, but a number of them are not; these primarily relate to changes to drivers for DMA, the Security peripheral and the TSEC controllers.

I have contacted Freescale, but they basically say that they provide the BSP, and make no commitments to supporting any other version of the linux kernel.

My questions are:

1) is there any way to determine if any these patches are currently being worked into the mainline kernel, or if they have been abandoned for some reason?

2) Is it worth trying to move these patches up to the head of development and trying to get them merged into the mainline kernel, or is that really just up to freescale to do?

Again, if there is a better place to be addressing this, please point me in that direction.

Thanks in advance!

B.J. Buchalter
Metric Halo
http://www.mhlabs.com
        


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