From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <9e4733910712101354i31020c2w72d74bf33ba3e90b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:54:32 -0500 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Grant Likely" Subject: Re: ppc vs powerpc In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <9e4733910712101254r1bf8925o20ee6eacd3af6a18@mail.gmail.com> Cc: PowerPC dev list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 12/10/07, Grant Likely wrote: > On 12/10/07, Jon Smirl 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. > > > -- > Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. > Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. > grant.likely@secretlab.ca > (403) 399-0195 > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com