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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Starting the arch/powerpc merge
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:25:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17208.37250.577664.621993@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)

I have pushed a commit to the powerpc-merge.git tree which gets us far
enough to be able to build a 32-bit powermac kernel with
ARCH=powerpc.  It's still very rough in places, and it uses bits out
of arch/ppc/kernel and arch/ppc/syslib, but it is a start.

Of course, this means that we are about to bump up against the really
hard bits of the merge.  Things like

* converting ppc32 to use the lmb infrastructure
* introducing the device-tree flattening/unflattening to ppc32
* working out how to deal with the early hash table initialization
  that POWER4 needs on ppc32
* reconciling the fact that ppc64 needs RELOC in the prom_init code,
  whereas ppc32 doesn't; but ppc64 doesn't need RELOC when running
  with the MMU off but ppc32 does (or needs -mrelocatable).

I look forward to people sending me patches to push this on a bit
further, and in particular to populate arch/powerpc/platforms a bit
more. :)

Paul.

             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-27  0:25 Paul Mackerras [this message]
2005-09-27  3:39 ` Starting the arch/powerpc merge Kumar Gala
2005-09-27  5:38   ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-09-27  9:56   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27  8:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-27  8:30   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27  9:16     ` Heikki Lindholm
2005-09-27  9:26       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-09-27  9:55         ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27  9:51           ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-09-28  0:05     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-09-29  7:20       ` Giuliano Pochini
2005-10-06 23:24         ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-20 23:01           ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-21  7:19           ` Giuliano Pochini
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-27 15:43 Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-27 16:43 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-27 17:29   ` Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-28  0:07     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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