Re: ppc -> powerpc porting

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Vitaly Bordug wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:14:24 -0500
"Rune Torgersen" [off-list ref] wrote:

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To make my life a little easier: Does anybody have a list of stuff to
watch out for/need to do when porting a board from ppc to powerpc?
The board uses a Freescale 8265 and runs under 2.6.17, using platfrom
device support for accessing fs_enet driver.

Look at Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt - there's a section 
on that. I am attempting the same sort of conversion for an embedded 
mpc8241 board, so, would be glad to share ideas / experiences, I think, we 
won't offend others if we just discuss our problems on this list, maybe 
even somebody else will find it useful:-)) The first step I am trying to 
perform is to switch to the device-tree boot. Does your board already use 
it or does it have OF?

We have mpc8272 under arch/powerpc as work-in-progress, latest fs_enet being merged now.

I think it'll be a week or 2 before first submit, so it may make sense just to wait a bit :)

Yep, you could wait, but, you see, an example will be great, but, I am 
afraid, all ports will be pretty different, so, we'll all have to "invent 
the wheel." Is your code available somewhere in some repository to have a 
look at?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski