On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:08:17 +0100 Laurent Pinchart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to take the big jump and move my (mostly) stable board support > from > arch/ppc to arch/powerpc. I'm still at a very early stage, but here are > already a few questions. > > arch/ppc defines some 8260 generic handlers in syslib/mpc8260_setup.c for > operations such as halt, reset, show_cpuinfo, ... The MPC82xx ADS in > arch/powerpc/platforms/82xx redefines those handles as board-specific > functions. Should they be made generic to all 82xx boards, or should I copy > them to my board-specific file ? If the code should be shared by all 82xx > boards, I'll probably end up copying most of the > arch/ppc/syslib/mpc8260_setup.c code to > arch/powerpc/platforms/82xx/mpc82xx.c. > I'd just copy stuff to the BSP -- let's consider the common/uncommon stuff later when we'll have to add something else. It's hard to envision what level of code should be common and what should be board-specific as of now. Otherwise, we'll have to painfully revisit issue later. -- Sincerely, Vitaly _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
