From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:59:39 -0700 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: ppc vs powerpc In-Reply-To: <9e4733910712101254r1bf8925o20ee6eacd3af6a18@mail.gmail.com> 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, 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. 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