From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3988C944.74A6FC45@rochcivictheatre.org> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:22:12 -0500 From: Tom Gall MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Schmitz CC: linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Given the flexibility I was used to on m68k[*], I find this a pity as well... > > > > Well, it looks like I opened up a big can of worms........... > > > > I guess this is something that will get discussed as part of > > "restructuring" the PowerPC source tree when we jump into 2.5.xx. > > While I also enjoyed the flexibility on m68k, some of it was paid for in > terms of increased complexity in head.S and entry.S (and especially head.S > wasn't a bit pretty). I'm not sure how your trouble with the embedded > systems can be solved, we kept separate head.S versions for Macs and other > machines for a while as well because things just got too confusing. Maybe > we need to keep separate versions for embedded and other systems here? Hi All, I think we don't want to get too carried away with pulling things apart here. Afterall I think we'd all like to be able to continue to pick up a distro with a bootable kernel that works over a wide variety of machines instead of 10 different kernels to choose from depending on which box you've got. Now obvoiusly I'm going a little overboard here but hopefully you might see what I'm saying. Granted embedded boxes aren't going to care about booting from the install cd but I think the rest of us sure do! -- Hakuna Matata, Tom ----------------------------------------------------------- Linux Guy "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, tgall@uswest.net my brain IBM" -- Mr Roboto, Styxx ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/