Am 29.09.2006 um 19:46 schrieb Raylynn Knight: > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:32 +0200, Tobias Netzel wrote: >> Am 29.09.2006 um 08:46 schrieb Raylynn Knight: >> >>> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 22:07 +0200, Florian Boelstler wrote: >>>> Hi Tobias, >>>> >>>> Tobias Netzel wrote: >>>>> I didn't have time yet to look into the sources. >>>> >>>> Me neither. >>>> >>>>> I don't even know what a "flat" device tree is. Does it mean that >>>>> all >>>>> nodes are on the same level? >>>> >>>> AFAIK the "flattened device tree" is a replacement for systems that >>>> do >>>> not build on Open Firmware. >>>> I am also affected about this change at work, though I didn't had a >>>> chance to thoroughly investigate it. >>>> >>>> An initial documentation can be found in <linux >>>> source>/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt >>>> >>>> Florian >>>> >>> We might want to ask Benjamin Herrenschmidt's opinion on the approach >>> we >>> should take. The document states " new 32-bit >>> platforms and 32-bit platforms which move into arch/powerpc will be >>> required to use these rules". But the document seems to be >>> addressing >>> mostly embedded platforms. Also, I do believe Ben will have to >>> review >>> any code we wish to get into the mainstream kernel tree. >>> >> It would be hard and a lot of work to get our patches into the >> mainstream kernel - too much for just 2 persons. >> Or is there anyone who would like to communicate with the ppc kernel >> developers list? >>> > I'm all for making the effort. The advantage if we do it right, would > be support from the debian and Ubuntu distributions at a minimum. Also > taking this route might get us more than 2 developers. Perhaps we have > more than 2 already?? Florian appears to be interested, if you count > you and I and him that's already 3 developers!!! I have some > experience with NuBus and the Ethernet drivers having done work on both > for m68k Mac in the past. That's great! > > I'm currently working on updating the SMC driver to support PDS and > CommSlot cards on the 6290 and the Asante 100MB Nubus card on the x100 > boxes. I'm also working on getting Doc support for the 2300 working by > perusing the NetBSD code, I think I can at least get the Ethernet on > the > Newer UltraDock and MicroDock working in the next couple of weeks. > Getting the SCSI port working would be great, but even NetBSD hasn't > seemed to have figured that out yet. I found some dock support in the NetBSD sources, too. Did you get a PB 500 PPC yet? You once mentioned you will get one.
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