merge progress
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Tue Oct 18 17:50:26 EST 2005
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Simon Richter wrote:
> Paul Mackerras schrieb:
> > Hmmm, probably should work off the merge tree.
>
> Good, then I'll fast-forward them there.
>
> > However, we decided at
> > OLS that platforms would require a device tree before being merged.
> > Have you looked at creating a suitable flattened device tree blob with
> > dtc? (If not, you can continue to compile with ARCH=ppc for now.)
>
> In fact my current plan is to move away from m68k bootinfo (which APUS
> borrows so you can use the same bootloader) towards a flattened dev tree
Is requiring a flattened device tree really the right approach to take, for
APUS? APUS borrows from/shares with m68k a lot of code.
BTW, why do you want to move away from m68k bootinfo (apart from using a
flattened device tree)?
> passed in from the bootloader. For that, however, we need a new
> bootloader first, which is dependant on AmigaOS binutils/gcc.
>
> So I guess it will be ARCH=ppc until the new bootloader is ready.
Happy hacking!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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