From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao02.cox.net (fed1rmmtao02.cox.net [68.230.241.37]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF23E6829E for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:08:56 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:08:44 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: Dan Malek Message-ID: <20050919070844.B25356@cox.net> References: <431260BA.7000107@jonmasters.org> <20050830083859.B5925@cox.net> <200509151803.15301.sr@denx.de> <20050915092555.A27452@cox.net> <732f7227a8bcc2f3115e52633a60f120@embeddededge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <732f7227a8bcc2f3115e52633a60f120@embeddededge.com>; from dan@embeddededge.com on Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:03:23PM -0400 Cc: Stefan Roese , linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: PPC4xx cleanup List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:03:23PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Matt Porter wrote: > > > Sounds great to me. This will have to wait to go in mainline until > > after 2.6.14 is out though. > > If you are considering this, I think you should be looking at the > recent U-Boot discussion and patches for the "flat OF tree" and > follow that path. We need to fix the kernel versus the current version of U-boot's data passing scheme for ppc32. Once the flat OF tree stuff is mainline we can convert to it...except we have to have a wrapper for older versions of u-boot assuming that somebody will have changed U-boot so 4xx dumps a flat OF tree. -Matt