PowerPC4xx Watchdog

Matt Porter mporter at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 4 04:11:46 EST 2005


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:21:13AM +0900, Takeharu KATO wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> Kumar Gala wrote:
> > One thing the code needs is a general name cleanup.  Its just confusing 
> > to me for e500 to have 4xx references.
> > 
> How about the use of booke instead of 4xx?

Yes, please. :)

> I seem to use ``booke'' for common name for them like 
> arch/ppc/kernel/head_booke.h in the kernel source.
> 
> Strictly speaking, PowerPC4xx series may not be called booke.
> But I think that it is more preferable than current name.

440 is strictly Book E, 405 is a hybrid that pulled borrowed
from Green book and Book E.

-Matt



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