From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45757B28.50009@domain.hid> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:59:04 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] Adeos support for 2.6.18 merged PowerPC architecture. References: <20061124105346.e442448d.benjamin.zores@domain.hid> <4566C5AF.7030107@domain.hid> <20061124113009.08c0a490.benjamin.zores@domain.hid> <4569E699.6050003@domain.hid> <20061127092143.e633cd91.benjamin.zores@domain.hid> <456ACA35.8030206@domain.hid> <20061127125419.3852edd9.benjamin.zores@domain.hid> <456AD5EB.5040901@domain.hid> <20061130133745.272ab4b1.benjamin.zores@domain.hid> <45754723.6050503@domain.hid> <20061205133516.b3b9ae85.benjamin.zores@domain.hid> <45756F92.6060001@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <45756F92.6060001@domain.hid> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB67FD629D7C73B8469706ABA" Sender: jan.kiszka@domain.hid List-Id: "Xenomai life and development \(bug reports, patches, discussions\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: xenomai-core This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB67FD629D7C73B8469706ABA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: > Benjamin Zores wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:17:07 +0100 >> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> >>> I have now a preliminary patch for adeos-ipipe-2.6.19-ppc-1.5-00. The= >>> porting was rather straight-forward, as the ppc tree does not use the= >>> new "genirq" interface, in contrast to the powerpc tree (that's what >>> you have realized as well). >> >> Well, i guess the old "ppc" arch is bound to die sooner or later. >> New developments should always be done against "powerpc" arch imho. >=20 > Well, the powerpc tree is still highly experimental and only a few > embedded boards are already supported. I guess it will take a long time= > before the ppc tree finally gets buried, especially because porting is > not really trivial (due to OF, IRQ layer, etc.), >=20 >>> Therefore the port of the powerpc tree should be based on Philippe's >>> new adeos-ipipe-2.6.19-i386-1.6-00. Unfortunately, I still do not >>> have a board by hand supported by the powerpc tree. >> >> I haven't had much much time investigating the problem till now. >> But from what i've seen from Philippe's splitted patches, many of them= >> that were supposed to be generic (i.e. don't have i386 in their name) >> still have references to x86 changes. >> Is it a normal behavior ? >=20 > Unfortunately, "generic" applies only to the Linux part. I realized, > that the new IPIPE support for the genirqs requires even more > arch-specific modifications than the old interface :-( on PowerPC. How comes? I haven't found time to analyse this for the latest x86 patch, but there it should be "more generic" than before. Do you think this is a genirq issue or an I-pipe problem? Jan --------------enigB67FD629D7C73B8469706ABA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFdXsoniDOoMHTA+kRAolrAJ9nzyqgFhDTtPjd9/JN/J0jlGQsAwCggK/u DFfJl0hWrrGcpHMHXfelXo4= =+xCA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB67FD629D7C73B8469706ABA--