From: Sven Luther <sven@powerlinux.fr>
To: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.net
Subject: Re: How to port PReP to arch/powerpc?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:04:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070822130433.GA32276@powerlinux.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0708221444510.5639@math.ut.ee>
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:50:07PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> It seems no one cares for arch/ppc any more but the move to powerpc was
> not finished completely (PReP subarch was not migrated but sees users, I
> do not know about the user base of the other subarches). So I have been
> thinking about migrating PReP support to arch/powerpc myself since I use
> it.
>
> Any general guidelines or specific hints about that? I have looked
> around in the code and some pieces are clearly PReP specific (setup,
> pci, boot) but others seem wuite a bit mixed up with other subarches.
I don't have much time for this right now, but i am interested in
helping out in a PReP arch/powerpc port, as this would allow debian to
drop the arch/ppc -prep flavour. I have both a motorola and an IBM PReP
box here to play with and test.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 11:50 How to port PReP to arch/powerpc? Meelis Roos
2007-08-22 12:29 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-22 16:19 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-08-22 15:27 ` Olof Johansson
2007-08-22 16:26 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-23 3:37 ` David Gibson
2007-08-22 13:04 ` Sven Luther [this message]
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