Is it time to move drivers/staging/netlogic/ out of staging?

Jayachandran C. c.jayachandran at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 11:28:39 UTC 2017


On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 2:08 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 12:36 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:57:16AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 10:50 -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> (with JC's other email)
>>>
>>> And now with Greg's proper email too
>>>
>>>> On 02/03/2017 10:47 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>> 64 bit stats isn't implemented, but is that really necessary?
>>>>> Anything else?
>>>>
>>>> Joe, do you have such hardware that you are interested in getting
>>>> supported, or was that just to reduce the amount of drivers in staging?
>>>> I am really not clear about what happened to that entire product line,
>>>> and whether there is any interest in having anything supported these days...
>>>
>>> No hardware.  Just to reduce staging driver count.
>>
>> Without hardware or a "real" maintainer, it shouldn't be moved.
>>
>> Heck, if no one has the hardware, let's just delete the thing.
>
> I do have one, and other colleagues have some too, but I am not heavily
> using it, nor do I have many cycles to spend on that... sounds like we
> could keep it in staging for another 6 months and see what happens then?

Unfortunately, I am no longer with Broadcom and don't have access to these
boards anymore. This driver is for XLR, the next generation SoC called XLP
has a different on-chip network accelerator - and that driver is not available
publicly other than in FreeBSD[1]

JC.
[1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/mips/nlm/dev/net/


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