From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:00:47 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu platform, v2 Message-ID: <20070924040047.GK8058@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070922095546.GA14185@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070922095546.GA14185@lst.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras , Rob Landley , Milton Miller List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:46AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:08:31PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote: > > Here is the second rev of patches to boot a arch powerpc kernel on > > qemu with the prep architecture. > > So if this is supposed to be prep why do you need additional kernel > support? And if you really needed why isn't it under > platforms/prep? Basically because PReP support doesn't work under arch/powerpc. Getting it working properly is something that should happen, but will take a while. In the meantime, getting something that's sufficient to get working under just qemu's version of prep, without using the abominable openhackware is a quicker path to a usable arch/powerpc kernel under qemu. -- 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