From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Dan Malek , linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: Platform configuration (was: Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:19:17 +0200 Message-Id: <20000831161917.24142@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <39AE80BD.D86B34DA@embeddededge.com> References: <39AE80BD.D86B34DA@embeddededge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >Yeah, well, I am used to continually losing this battle. Although >embedded PowerPC is likely to have _lots_ more installations than >the desktop, we'll just survive on the pieces left behind. A pretty >running desktop gets lots of press coverage while code that acutally >runs the infrastructure of the world is unknown (I guess we are doing >a great job, then :-). > >I am just happy that I can finally build a kernel for the MPC8xx that >doesn't require I configure an ADB keyboard. I also like building the >same sources for all of my Mac workstations and servers as well. In the current bk, I made sure you can compile without ADB (even for pmac), without the backlight stuffs, etc... >I would also like to see us spend a little more time trying to >stabilize 2.4 instead of trying to solve elaborate configuration and >boot schemes. That is what 2.5 is for. Agreed. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/