Lucid pull request for sfc

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 16:11 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 07:39:03AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > 
> > Please reference https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-January/008288.html
> > 
> > A second set of eyeballs on the 3 core network patches would be good.
> > 
> > The following changes since commit 9935581d8aa598c953d8d63021b75eaf2d12a635:
> >   Tim Gardner (1):
> >         UBUNTU: [Upstream] b43: Declare all possible firmware files.
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-lucid.git sfc
> 
> The three core patches look ok.  The rest is simply terrifying.  Anyhow
> I've applied it to the Lucid kernel for testing.

Unfortunately we had to do a lot of refactoring to support the new
hardware architecture (the SFC9000 family) alongside the SFC4000, as
much of the MAC, PHY and board driver code is implemented in firmware on
the new chips.  The upside of this is that we will rarely need to ask
you to pull any changes to support new boards.

Ben.

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