From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:37:03 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Josh Boyer Subject: Re: How to port PReP to arch/powerpc? Message-ID: <20070823033703.GK7042@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070822072956.56b7df46@vader.jdub.homelinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070822072956.56b7df46@vader.jdub.homelinux.org> Cc: Meelis Roos , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.net List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:29:56AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:50:07 +0300 (EEST) > 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. > > The merge is still on-going. So it's not "finished" at all. > > > 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. > > David Gibson and Rob Landley had a quite interesting discussion about > PReP last night on IRC. You might want to contact them and see if they > came to any conclusions. Yes, my draft PReP support patch, tweaked this morning to build again (changes roughly identical to Rob Landley's patch, I believe) is at: http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/home/tmp/prep-support -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson