PPC embedded plans ?

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:52:40AM +0300, Dag Nygren wrote:

> Checking out the sources I think I  can notice that there is a strong
> push towards some kind of "one file" machine definition.

Sort of.  To do a new board port in 2.4.9 (in linuxppc_2_4_devel), you
only need to edit arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile, arch/ppc/boot/Makefile and
possibly include/asm-ppc/serial.h.  And arch/ppc/config.in too, of course.
No more new _MACH_xxx's, there's now ppc_md.setup_io_mappings (or so),
to do what used to be done in MMU_init and case'ing of the _MACH.

> And what would be the best 2.4.9 to start out with ?

2_4_devel, http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml

> Any written policy on the setup of the machine dependant stuff ?

Nope.  Follow the examples.

> Any way of getting my board defs into the official (?) PPC source tree ?

If you submit them.  Here, linuxppc-dev and linuxppc-commit at source.mvista.com
are all good places to try.  The -dev list more so.

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