From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "samppa@sundmangroup.com" <samppa@sundmangroup.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: PPC vs POWERPC
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:52:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40801110652s67b2a05al79f78144c5b527bd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23145.147.11.3.128.1200054808.squirrel@www.sundmangroup.com>
On 1/11/08, samppa@sundmangroup.com <samppa@sundmangroup.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to port a board ( WRS SBC8265 ) from the PPC branch to the POWERPC
> branch in the Linux Kernel -- do you have any good starting points that
> describes what I need to pay attention to?
>
> I've already made a port of U-boot-1.3.1 and enabled CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT.
>
> So I need to create a DTS file, compile it with the DTC compiler and port
> the current PPC branch to the POWERPC branch to my understanding.
Yes, you're exactly right. Use one of the dts files in
arch/powerpc/boot/dts as a starting point and read
Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt to find out what is
expected in the device tree.
Cheers,
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-11 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-11 12:33 PPC vs POWERPC samppa
2008-01-11 14:52 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-01-15 10:38 ` Matias Sundman
2008-01-15 17:01 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-01-15 17:07 ` Scott Wood
2008-01-15 17:14 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-01-15 17:47 ` Matias Sundman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-10 20:54 ppc vs powerpc Jon Smirl
2007-12-10 20:59 ` Grant Likely
2007-12-10 21:04 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-10 21:54 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-10 22:01 ` Tony Breeds
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