From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: crn@netunix•com
Cc: sammy@sammy•net, sfr@canb•auug.org.au,
microblaze-uclinux@itee•uq.edu.au,
devicetree-discuss@lists•ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger•kernel.org,
julian.calaby@gmail•com, wmb@firmworks•com,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Merge common OpenFirmware device tree code
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:09:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007.140938.255120957.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0910072148040.11795@mailgate.netunix.com>
From: Chris Newport <crn@netunix•com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:54:34 +0100 (BST)
> Sun4c has also been broken for a long time and sun4d has never worked
> properly. Is it time to also prune these ?.
> That would leave only Sun4m in the 32bit kernel, which still works and
> has plenty of ongoing user interest.
Chris don't over-exaggerate the state.
The truth is that the whole sparc32 port is in a state of mild
disrepair, and many of the issues apply to all the port rather than
just one family of systems. I think someone suitably motivated
could get most of the bugs sorted out.
There is no reason to drop support for SS1 machines, we already fully
build the software device tree and use all of the generic OF
infrastructure in the Linux kernel on those systems. It is not a road
block at all for the OF genericization work, if that's what you read
into wmb's email.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 4:29 [RFC PATCH 00/12] Merge common OpenFirmware device tree code Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:30 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] of: Rework linux/of.h and asm/prom.h include ordering Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:30 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] of: merge phandle, ihandle and struct property Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:30 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] of: merge struct device_node Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:30 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] of: Move OF_IS_DYNAMIC and OF_MARK_DYNAMIC macros to of.h Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:30 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] of: add common header for flattened device tree representation Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:57 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-10-07 12:14 ` [microblaze-uclinux] " Michal Simek
2009-10-07 13:38 ` Grant Likely
2009-10-07 14:07 ` Michal Simek
2009-10-07 5:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-07 13:41 ` Grant Likely
2009-10-09 6:35 ` David Gibson
2009-10-09 7:07 ` Grant Likely
2009-10-14 4:47 ` David Gibson
2009-10-07 4:31 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] of: merge struct boot_param_header from Microblaze and PowerPC Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:31 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] of: merge of_node_*_flag() and set_node_proc_entry() Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:31 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] of: merge of_read_number() an of_read_ulong() Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:31 ` [RFC PATCH 09/12] of: merge of_node_get(), of_node_put() and of_find_all_nodes() Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:32 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] of: merge of_*_flat_dt*() functions Grant Likely
2009-10-09 6:36 ` David Gibson
2009-10-09 7:03 ` Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:32 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] of: merge other miscellaneous prototypes Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:32 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] of: merge of_find_all_nodes() implementations Grant Likely
2009-10-07 4:49 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] Merge common OpenFirmware device tree code Grant Likely
2009-10-07 5:18 ` Julian Calaby
2009-10-07 13:52 ` Sam Creasey
2009-10-07 19:30 ` Mitch Bradley
2009-10-07 20:54 ` Chris Newport
2009-10-07 21:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-08 1:29 ` Chris Newport
2009-10-08 4:39 ` David Miller
2009-10-08 13:24 ` Kjetil Oftedal
2009-10-07 22:57 ` Brad Boyer
2009-10-07 7:09 ` Rob Landley
2009-10-07 14:02 ` Grant Likely
2009-10-07 14:21 ` [microblaze-uclinux] " Michal Simek
2009-10-07 7:27 ` David Miller
2009-10-07 16:39 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
2009-10-07 9:02 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-10-15 1:00 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-10-15 1:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] of: create asm/of.h Stephen Rothwell
2009-10-15 1:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] of: move struct property to asm/of.h Stephen Rothwell
2009-10-15 17:06 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] Merge common OpenFirmware device tree code Grant Likely
2009-10-15 23:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-10-16 3:18 ` Grant Likely
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