Re: kbuild now support arch/$ARCH/include - time for ARCHs to convert

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Paul Mundt wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:26:04PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, David Howells wrote:
>>>> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think the more interesting aspect in m68knommu is what happens
>>>>> when asm-m68k gets moved. Does that work as well?
>>>> Can m68knommu be merged into m68k and be made contingent on CONFIG_MMU?  This
>>>> is what FRV does.
>>> Sure it can ;-)
>>>
>>> Actually I did a bit of work to add nommu support to m68k to make it
>>> boot on old MMU-less Amigas, but it dates back to the 2.6.8.1 era...
>>>
>>> The bigger issue is in those parts that are done differently by m68k and
>>> m68knommu (esp. head.S).
>>>
>>> Who's gonna take the work? :-)
>>>
>> This sort of merging is fairly easy to do incrementally, at least by
>> someone that has both platforms available. An easy first step would be to
> 
> Indeed. I have none of the currently supported m68knommu platforms,
> though.
> Don't know about Greg and m68k platforms (of course he can use ARAnyM
> ;-).

I don't have any real m68k (with MMU) hardware ;-)
I do have a v4e ColdFire with MMU, but that is not supported
by mainline m68k code. Maybe a help...


>> move the m68knommu stuff that are implemented differently over as _nommu
>> files, similar to how the _32/_64 renames happened, and then set about
>> converging the two little by little. This is what I've been doing with
>> sh64->sh integration for example, despite fundamental differences like
>> having a totally different register layout and instruction set.
> 
> IC.

Probably not hugely difficult to merge together. Quite a few of the
m68knommu files came from m68k with only a little change and a lot
of removal. The board/platform stuff is obviously quite different -
very little (if any) commonality.

Just needs someone with time to sit down and do it and clean up
the resulting mess.

Regards
Greg


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