Hi Josh, I think it would be more helpful if I were to tidy it a bit and add AMCC Taihu boot support to it first. Then submit it. People are more likely to have access to a Taihu than one of our boards.
What I mean by "AMCC Taihu boot support" is that the board would come up just like our Taihushui/Kolsch family of boards, but would not include the extra drivers, etc needed for USB gadgets, the LCD and other like items that are on the AMCC board. Once I get this done, I can submit BSP patch sets for kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.26. If there is demand, I could submit a BSP patch set for 2.6.24 as well. Please send me (or URL to) summarized patch submission instructions / guidelines. Regards, Darcy -----Original Message----- From: Josh Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Boyer Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:33 AM To: Darcy Watkins Cc: vb; Mike Timmons; Andy Schmidt; linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: PPC to PowerPC Migration On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:38:44 -0700 "Darcy Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently migrated an AMCC PPC405EP system from arch/ppc to > arch/powerpc and found that in kernel 2.6.25, my board support patches > have reduced to just the board support patches - approx 20k bytes in > size (and one small one-line fix needed when using RT Preemption > kernel). Compare this with 2.6.24 and earlier where I had to apply > patches to complete the PPC405EP and/or arch/powerpc support. > Prior to 2.6.23 had to use non kernel.org kernel sources and > arch/ppc. > 2.6.23 --> patch file size 400k+ > 2.6.24 --> patch file size ~80k > 2.6.25 --> patch file size ~20k > 2.6.26 --> patch file size ~20k > > I think that with 2.6.25 (and upcoming 2.6.26) this means that 4xx is > ready for prime time in arch/powerpc. Did you post your patch for your board port? If not, please do. If so, kindly point me to it so I can look at merging it into mainline? josh No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.2.0/1497 - Release Date: 6/11/2008 8:32 AM _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
