Re: ppc vs powerpc

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 12/10/07, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On 12/10/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is the plan for ppc to be completely merged with powerpc and then be
> > eliminated? If so, how close is this to completion?
> >
> > What should we do with ppc users of mpc-i2c? If the plan is to
> > eliminate ppc I would say to just copy the existing driver and then
> > delete the old version when the rest of ppc gets deleted.
>
> arch/ppc is scheduled to be removed middle of 2008.  Don't break
> arch/ppc users before then.  Ideally there should be overlap between
> the addition of support in arch/powerpc and the removal of support
> from arch/ppc.

How can I tell a build for ARCH=ppc vs ARCH=powerpc in Kconfig?

> Personally, I structure the driver to support both platform bus and
> of_platform bus.  It's not hard to do and it keeps things
> understandable.  Take a look at drivers/block/xsysace for an example.
>
> Cheers,
> g.
>
>
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> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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