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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:42:32 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "CHAVENT Paul" <Paul.CHAVENT@alyotech.fr>
Subject: Re: Support a new platform in arch/ppc or in arch/powerpc ?
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:53:54 +0200
"CHAVENT Paul" <Paul.CHAVENT@alyotech.fr> wrote:

> Good morning.
> 
> I would like to port a bsp (for the motorola MVME5500 sbc) to the current (2.6.22.6) kernel.
> 
> Should i implement it in arch/powerpc ?

Yes.  arch/ppc is bug fix only at this point.

> If i should do it in arch/powerpc, can i copy some code i need in arch/ppc ? For example, with kernel 2.6.18.1 i used arch/ppc/syslib/todc_time and arch/ppc/syslib/pci_auto, but perhaps i don't need it anymore ?

I'm not sure those will work well in arch/powerpc.  But obviously some
code porting is expected.

josh