[PATCH 1/1] PPC32 : Huge-page support for ppc440

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 14:45 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 19:26 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >  > Also, while it's great to have somebody do this work, I doubt there is
> >  > much interest in merging it for arch/ppc... 
> > 
> > On that subject, what's the latest on moving ppc4xx to arch/powerpc?
> > At the kernel summit you told me to chill out and wait, but I'll
> > repeat my offer to help out....
> 
> Well, I told you that Matt Porter was about to do it :-) Now I haven't
> heard from him since. Feel free to jump in, just make sure you keep in
> sync with Josh and Matt.
> 
> One of the reason waiting was a good idea too is that we didn't have a
> proper mecanism for stuffing device-trees in zImage wrappers, which we 
> have now.

I've gotten this mostly working for 44x.  I need to rebase and do a few
cleanups on the patches though.

> Also, I've started doing some work around 4xx devices used on MMIO
> platforms (like the Axon southbridge on Cell), and while doing that,
> started moving EMAC to be an of_platform_device (or rather a set of them
> since EMAC is made of multiple devices). (Based on initial work by
> Shaun).

That'll come in handy soon.  Right now, the zImage wrapper uncompresses
the kernel and jumps to it, but I don't get any further output.  It's
just a matter of getting time and I need to sit down and work on this
some more.

josh