On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:50, Chandrasekhar Nagaraj wrote: > <DIV style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><DIV>Hi,</DIV> > <DIV>I have a customized board based on the MPC852T based processor.</DIV> > <DIV>I intend to develop a BSP for this board.</DIV> > <DIV> </DIV> > <DIV>Does 2.6.16 from the kernel.org support this processor?</DIV>
First of all, please avoid HTML in e-mail messages. It is hard to read, and normally banned on mailing list such as this one. Yes, MPC852T is supported, although I might add that I have been using 2.6.14 and 2.6.15 sucessfully with our own MPC852T-based board, but 2.6.16 did not boot and as of today I don't know why, or whether this is an issue at all with boards other than ours. > <DIV> </DIV> > <DIV>In the 2.6.16 sources I found support for CONFIG_8xx. Does this mean > that 852T processor is also supported?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> Yes. Look at BSP stuff for other 8xx boards to learn how to port yours. Keep an eye on the new platform_bus stuff, that's currently being implemented for different drivers and subsystmes for powerpc (this could be the reason, our own BSP stuff stopped working with 2.6.16, btw). Also a transition from /arch/ppc and /arch/ppc64 towards the common /arch/powerpc is in progress, and therefore some things might be in a state of flux between released versions of the kernel. As of today (kernel 2.6.16) the architecture you need to use is still /arch/ppc. Good luck! Greetings, -- David Jander
