From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EB1DE147 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:14:12 +1000 (EST) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c34so726158anc.78 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:14:11 +0200 From: "Jens Wirth" To: "Andrew Schmidt" , linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: PPC to PowerPC Migration In-Reply-To: <1A76658A-B5BB-4A48-B81A-A0F7096C2943@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <161B3BAD77161449A144FF054231C3D6022A3E4A@uss-am-xch-01.am.trimblecorp.net> <20080611123254.64fabf64@vader.jdub.homelinux.org> <20080611133247.0ac8b7c6@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <1A76658A-B5BB-4A48-B81A-A0F7096C2943@gmail.com> List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Andrew Schmidt wrote: > First off, thank you everyone for replying, I must admit I was only > expecting a few people to reply, but this is great. I certainly am > interested in any help I can get. I suspect my first task is to go over the > information given and then start to draft up a simple text file. I am more > experienced with the Xilinx PPC so initially the documentation may seems a > little biased, but if anyone with other areas of expertise (as is evident > from the emails received thus far) wants to help broaden it, that would be > great. I will get back to you shortly with my first "attempt." I'm currently working with a custom design on a Xilinx ML300 board to evaluate the realtime capabilities of the linux kernel with rt-patches. Since this is my first experience with embedded Linux I had the most trouble with understanding the coherences of the most general stuff like the difference between ppc and powerpc as well as the need for a device tree within powerpc but not ppc. Everything is documented very well for it's own, but I would appreciate to see a documentation that gives a bit more overview to the subject which is important for beginners. Well, I'm going to document my work from the system design using EDK and ISE through to creating a running linux from scratch based on this design. I'd like to support your documentation as much as I can. Regards, Jens Wirth