RFC: proposed arch/powerpc directory structure

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Fri Aug 12 12:34:57 EST 2005


On Aug 11, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> I think this causes confusion.  the reason we suggested pq2 and
>> classic32 was to handle things like sandpoint.  Sandpoint would live
>> in classic32.  The confusion partial comes from the fact that we can
>> run 8240/1/5 on a Sandpoint.  The thinking was everything that was
>> 6xx/7xx/74xx + things like 8240/1/5 which can be thought of as 603 +
>> 10x bridge would be classic32.
>>
>
> Thanks for the explanation.  But I think this is overkill for the
> sandpoint or true like a sandpoint (Zynx something, Willow, neither of
> which are in the kernel tree).  I think we can field the "I wanna hack
> on my Sandpoint/8240, but don't see the code under 82xx/!"  
> question. :)

So where do you suggest Sandpoint goes in this directory structure?

- kumar



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