Platform configuration (was: Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac)

[Dan Malek]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> And since there are people who care about embedded PPC systems, it would be
> great to at least have _the choice_ to compile a small specific kernel or a
> large generic one.

Yeah, well, I am used to continually losing this battle.  Although
embedded PowerPC is likely to have _lots_ more installations than
the desktop, we'll just survive on the pieces left behind.  A pretty
running desktop gets lots of press coverage while code that acutally
runs the infrastructure of the world is unknown (I guess we are doing
a great job, then :-).

I am just happy that I can finally build a kernel for the MPC8xx that
doesn't require I configure an ADB keyboard.  I also like building the
same sources for all of my Mac workstations and servers as well.

I would also like to see us spend a little more time trying to
stabilize 2.4 instead of trying to solve elaborate configuration and
boot schemes.  That is what 2.5 is for.


	-- Dan

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