From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com (ag-out-0708.google.com [72.14.246.246]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23C1DDE17 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:52:17 +1100 (EST) Received: by ag-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 33so768130agc.0 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:52:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:52:16 -0700 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "samppa@sundmangroup.com" Subject: Re: PPC vs POWERPC In-Reply-To: <23145.147.11.3.128.1200054808.squirrel@www.sundmangroup.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <23145.147.11.3.128.1200054808.squirrel@www.sundmangroup.com> Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 1/11/08, 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.