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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:50:04 +0200
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On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:50, Chandrasekhar Nagaraj wrote:
> <DIV style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><DIV>Hi,</DIV>
> <DIV>I have a customized board based on the MPC852T based processor.</DIV>
> <DIV>I intend to develop a BSP for this board.</DIV>
> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV>Does 2.6.16 from the kernel.org support this processor?</DIV>

First of all, please avoid HTML in e-mail messages. It is hard to read, and 
normally banned on mailing list such as this one.

Yes, MPC852T is supported, although I might add that I have been using 2.6.14 
and 2.6.15 sucessfully with our own MPC852T-based board, but 2.6.16 did not 
boot and as of today I don't know why, or whether this is an issue at all 
with boards other than ours.

> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV>In the 2.6.16 sources I found support for CONFIG_8xx. Does this mean
> that 852T processor is also supported?</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>

Yes. Look at BSP stuff for other 8xx boards to learn how to port yours. Keep 
an eye on the new platform_bus stuff, that's currently being implemented for 
different drivers and subsystmes for powerpc (this could be the reason, our 
own BSP stuff stopped working with 2.6.16, btw).
Also a transition from /arch/ppc and /arch/ppc64 towards the 
common /arch/powerpc is in progress, and therefore some things might be in a 
state of flux between released versions of the kernel. As of today (kernel 
2.6.16) the architecture you need to use is still /arch/ppc.
Good luck!

Greetings,

-- 
David Jander