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 14B30DDFB1 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 02:24:39 +1100 (EST) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c37so760445anc.78 for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:24:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:24:38 -0700 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Josh Boyer" Subject: Re: compile quirk linux-2.6.24 (with workaround) In-Reply-To: <20080205091548.724c4e20@zod.rchland.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <200802031729.12069.bernhard@intevation.de> <20080204095121.GA18167@powerlinux.fr> <20080205070833.3a5b7c11@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <20080205143926.GA9709@powerlinux.fr> <20080205091548.724c4e20@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Bernhard Reiter , debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 2/5/08, Josh Boyer wrote: > > I mean, if you have not included 4xx support in the kernel, as is the > > case here, it does not make sense to add the 4xx bootwrapper code, no ? > > It does, in a manner. There are both generic and platform specific > pieces to the bootwrapper. Having everything always built helps keep > the generic bits from breaking, which is important as they're often > tightly coupled. That's at least the reason I can think of. > > The powerpc maintainers have been over this quite a bit and I don't see > it changing anytime soon. That would mean we're dropping support for compilers which can't build 405/440 specific wrapper bits (or other core specific quirks that need to go in the wrapper) That doesn't sound appropriate to me. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.