arch/powerpc, Xilinx, and mainline kernel support

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Koss, Mike (Mission Systems)
<mike.koss at ngc.com> wrote:
> Is there any reason why the mainline 2.6.25.3 (and from what I could see .4)
> is missing the files to build for the Xilinx Virtex platform?
>
> Or in other words, I tried to build from 2.6.25.3 for the Xilinx Virtex
> under arch/powerpc (because arch/ppc actually crashes when once apps start
> to run) and it failed when trying to actually create the zImage. I hopped
> over to Xilinx's git server and noticed a bunch of missing entries in the
> boot/Makefile and source code to actually support the complete image build
> for a Xilinx Virtex PPC405.
>
> When is the Xilinx Virtex support going to be mainline official? I need to
> be able to grab a stable kernel and work from there rather than using the
> latest -rc that Xilinx is hosting on their git server.

Working on it.  Biggest problem is getting the device drivers in
shape.  However, other than Ethernet support, current arch/powerpc
(head of Linus' tree, not 2.6.25) should work for building virtex
kernels.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.