From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BAF691B.9020207@mc.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:10:51 -0400 From: Mark Salisbury MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Timothy A. Seufert" Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, dan@mvista.com, hobold@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE, nicoya@apia.dhs.org Subject: Re: ppc LE questions (seeking help hand info pointers) References: <200109211848.f8LImlT19616@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Timothy A. Seufert wrote: > Assuming you've identified all the needed changes for PPC LE with a > LE board (*), I humbly submit that Mark & co. should get to work > making a patch if they really want this feature. The only item which > might touch very much code is #5 (anybody know how frequently such > instructions are used?), and a strong argument can be made that those > instructions should not be used by anybody given their clearly > deprecated status. The rest of it is small enough to be maintained > outside the regular trees, so they will not lose big time if it gets > refused for integration. we'll see how it goes and let you know... -- /*------------------------------------------------** ** Mark Salisbury | Mercury Computer Systems ** ** mbs@mc.com | System OS - Kernel Team ** **------------------------------------------------*/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/