Hi everybody
As I wandered through the 2.6.14-rc4 kernel I noticed that since 2.6.10 the
old OAK (PPC403) evaluation board from IBM is no longer supported. I am quite
familiar with this board, as we at work we have quite a few some running
another OS.
The ethernet driver for this board (oaknet.c) required quite a few tricks
(e.g. some function like ei_obp) to work around some very annnoying design
weaknesses of the original board. As this driver is only used for this board
and not even compilable (eg. ei_obp is nowhere defined) I think it would be
better to remove it altogether.
As this is my first attempt to get a patch into the linux kernel, do not
hesitate to point out any mistakes I made.
My experiences using cogito have been very positive.
Please CC to me as I am not subscribed to this list.
Best regards
Niklaus Giger