From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl•com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx•de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: ppc vs. powerpc status update, please
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:36:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FwhWh-00040w-BB@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:20:12 +0200." <Pine.LNX.4.60.0607011215260.7912@poirot.grange>
So, like, the other day Guennadi Liakhovetski mumbled:
> What's the _current_ trend with those 2 archs, specifically,respecting
> embedded boards, the make ARCH=powerpc ***_defconfig for a board under ppc
> "just should work" doesn't seem to hold and I didn't find any provisions
> for that. (I read in an earlier post it "should"). Are ppc platforms still
> supposed to migrate to under powerpc? I am not quite clear where to put
> all board-specific stuff then, in that post it was told "you almost don't
> need anything, just use device tree and a correct CPU support, and put
> your specific _drivers_ somewhere". How is it in reality?
The trend is still happening. Things should be migrated out
of arch/ppc and into arch/powerpc. For example, I just
introduced a new 86xx board port only under arch/powerpc.
Please feel free to help migrate support into arch/powerpc!
jdl
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2006-07-01 10:20 ppc vs. powerpc status update, please Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-07-01 15:36 ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
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