From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <17208.37250.577664.621993@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <17208.37250.577664.621993@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <660EDD16-DB29-4168-8399-A0F4FA407CF5@freescale.com> From: Kumar Gala Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:39:56 -0500 To: Paul Mackerras Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sep 26, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > I have pushed a commit to the powerpc-merge.git tree which gets us far > enough to be able to build a 32-bit powermac kernel with > ARCH=powerpc. It's still very rough in places, and it uses bits out > of arch/ppc/kernel and arch/ppc/syslib, but it is a start. > > Of course, this means that we are about to bump up against the really > hard bits of the merge. Things like > > * converting ppc32 to use the lmb infrastructure > * introducing the device-tree flattening/unflattening to ppc32 > * working out how to deal with the early hash table initialization > that POWER4 needs on ppc32 > * reconciling the fact that ppc64 needs RELOC in the prom_init code, > whereas ppc32 doesn't; but ppc64 doesn't need RELOC when running > with the MMU off but ppc32 does (or needs -mrelocatable). > > I look forward to people sending me patches to push this on a bit > further, and in particular to populate arch/powerpc/platforms a bit > more. :) You have duplicated files between arch/ppc/ and arch/powerpc. Do you plan on cleaning this up are should we make sure we "fix" both? - kumar