4xx support in arch/ppc is going away Real Soon Now

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:09:54PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Adrian Bunk writes:
> 
> > BTW:
> > I remember Paul wanted to get PReP under arch/powerpc/ working -
> > should this be done before the big ppc removal?
> 
> I have a PReP port for arch/powerpc that works for one machine, at
> least. :)  The key part is the residual to device-tree converter that
> I posted some time back with a request for people to test it on their
> PReP machines, but I haven't heard back from anybody.  I'm going to
> post the patch shortly anyway.

Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee> has a Motorola Powerstack II Pro4000 and 
recently reported (now fixed) 2.6.26-rc build problems with the rusty 
ppc code.

You might have luck asking him for testing, thereby doubling the number 
of known-working machines.  :)

> Paul.

cu
Adrian

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