Re: PPC vs POWERPC

[Matias Sundman <linux@sundmangroup.com>]

Jon Loeliger skrev:
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 04:38, Matias Sundman wrote:
>   
>>  >>Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt to find out what is
>>  >>expected in the device tree.
>>
>> Is there any more information on how the "of_*" ( e.g. of_node_put ,  
>> of_find_node_by_type ) functions should be implemented in  the 
>> "arch/powerpc/platforms/myplatform/myboard_setup.c" file
>> or is the documentation the existing "*.c" c files under 
>> arch/powerpc/platforms ?
>>
>> Since I have a 82xx board I assume that "myboard_setup.c" file shall be 
>> put under arch/powerpc/platforms/82xx.
>>     
>
> Maybe.  Which 82xx is it?  There is a notable difference
> between, say, the 824x boards and the 827x boards.  If it
> is the latter, perhaps the existing 82xx/ pq2 or mpc8272
> parts are already sufficient?
>
> If it is the former group, 824x, perhaps some of the parts
> in embedded6xx/ are usable?  Also note that I am working on
> publishing an 824x StorCenter port under embedded6xx/ at
> this time as well.  First patches were posted to linuxppc-dev
> list at ozlabs.org.
>
> HTH,
> jdl
>
>
>   
The board is based on PPC8265.

Cheers // Matias