PPC to PowerPC Migration

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:38:44 -0700
"Darcy Watkins" <DWatkins at tranzeo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I recently migrated an AMCC PPC405EP system from arch/ppc to
> arch/powerpc and found that in kernel 2.6.25, my board support patches
> have reduced to just the board support patches - approx 20k bytes in
> size (and one small one-line fix needed when using RT Preemption
> kernel).  Compare this with 2.6.24 and earlier where I had to apply
> patches to complete the PPC405EP and/or arch/powerpc support.
>    Prior to 2.6.23 had to use non kernel.org kernel sources and
> arch/ppc.
>    2.6.23 --> patch file size 400k+
>    2.6.24 --> patch file size ~80k
>    2.6.25 --> patch file size ~20k
>    2.6.26 --> patch file size ~20k
> 
> I think that with 2.6.25 (and upcoming 2.6.26) this means that 4xx is
> ready for prime time in arch/powerpc.

Did you post your patch for your board port?  If not, please do.  If
so, kindly point me to it so I can look at merging it into mainline?

josh