Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] Adeos support for 2.6.18 merged PowerPC architecture.

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid>]

Benjamin Zores wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:09:38 +0100
> Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> That's pretty bad news :-(

Well, but that part is not really tricky.

>> Have you ever worked with that board under 2.6? It is not even well 
>> supported by the old ppc tree and you need patches, which are available 
>> somewhere but still require extra tweaking. I have such a board on my 
>> table and if I'm lucky, I will get U-Boot with OF support up and booting 
>> Linux PowerPC 2.6.19 ... but I need plenty of luck.
> 
> Nope, but i've seen recent commits for better support on kernel git
> for upcoming 2.6.20.

Yes, but till now it was not working out of the box.

> Btw, Freescale have GIT trees for UBoot with support for many of their CPUs
> (and support for OF as well). See http://opensource.freescale.com/

OK,

Thanks.

Wolfgang.