From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:47:21 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Michael Sokolov Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Incoming to helium.harhan.org:/home/linuxppc/linuxppc_2_4_alt Message-ID: <20020409194721.GI1331@opus.bloom.county> References: <20020409145222.GB710@opus.bloom.county> <0204091923.AA23957@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <0204091923.AA23957@ivan.Harhan.ORG> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:23:57PM -0700, Michael Sokolov wrote: > > Tom Rini wrote: > > > Well, take a look at what the file used to look like in _devel. It was > > around 30-40 lines of that. Which is not nice to look at. > > So what's more important, a pretty look or better functionality for the user? > > > Well, it's a much better system if you want to group unlike hardware > > together in one kernel. :) > > Which is what I want to do, and which is the RTTD for distributions like > Debian. Taking debian as an example here. You certainly wouldn't stick a zImage for every board into 1 package. Why? It'd be a 20mb package and as it is a few people dislike the number of vmlinux's in the -pmac package. So you only 'win' if you have a common, _bootable_ image on all of these boards. And while it is possible that there could be a common firmware, I'm not holding my breath. :) And the other point is that this makes it less clean to add in a new board port. > > Well, if ISA slots exist on the board, and should be working, they > > should just work. And when BenH merges in prep/chrp, it'll be needed. > > But the question is do you really want to offer this up on machines > > where it's not tested? > > I want to have configurable CONFIG_PCI and CONFIG_ISA support for > CONFIG_GENERIC_PPC32. Generic means that things like this must be > configurable. But what if they aren't really configurable? You could turn off CONFIG_PCI, but I don't think you'd get too far on most[1] systems. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ [1]: Most, not all, most. I know there's 8xx and others... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/