In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > please enlighten us (or maybe just me) on why the TQ8xx are not supported by > 2.6, since the ppc sources are in the 2.6.19 kernel source tree, that comes > with ELDK 4.1
The working 2.4 code was copied to 2.5 and later to 2.6 without ever being actively maintained. In early 2.6 kernels, support for 8xx was more or less broken. Lately, it has become clear that ARCH=ppc is a dead end and things should move to ARCH=powerpc. That's why I said we (DENX) will not support the 8xx in the ARCH=ppc context. Last but not least I would like to remind you that 2.6 is bigger and slower than 2.4, which is especially visible on low end systems like the 8xx. The kernel code that comes with the ELDK is very close to the vanilla kernel.org tree (plus some local extensions that have not yet been pushed upstream). The 8xx support in both trees is absolutely identical, i. e. the fact that 8xx code is in the ELDK has the very same reason why x86 code is there, or why sh4 or etrax or ... code is theee, even if these systems are not supported by the ELDK at all - this code is part of the vanilla kernel.org tree. AFAIK, 2.6 has never been fully ported to the TQM8xxL and TQM8xxM systems yet. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, HRB 165235 Munich, CEO: Wolfgang Denk Office: Kirchenstr. 5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
