From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D63DDE0D for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 08:26:52 +1000 (EST) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c34so324081anc.78 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:26:50 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Koss, Mike (Mission Systems)" Subject: Re: arch/powerpc, Xilinx, and mainline kernel support In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: 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 Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Koss, Mike (Mission Systems) wrote: > Is there any reason why the mainline 2.6.25.3 (and from what I could see .4) > is missing the files to build for the Xilinx Virtex platform? > > Or in other words, I tried to build from 2.6.25.3 for the Xilinx Virtex > under arch/powerpc (because arch/ppc actually crashes when once apps start > to run) and it failed when trying to actually create the zImage. I hopped > over to Xilinx's git server and noticed a bunch of missing entries in the > boot/Makefile and source code to actually support the complete image build > for a Xilinx Virtex PPC405. > > When is the Xilinx Virtex support going to be mainline official? I need to > be able to grab a stable kernel and work from there rather than using the > latest -rc that Xilinx is hosting on their git server. Working on it. Biggest problem is getting the device drivers in shape. However, other than Ethernet support, current arch/powerpc (head of Linus' tree, not 2.6.25) should work for building virtex kernels. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.