Re: ARCH=ppc vs ARCH=powerpc

Hi All,

I am currently trying to identify an anoying feature of linux on my 
sparc32 systems but I will do some work on the ppc -> powerpc migration 
as soon as I have exauhsted my current avenues of investiation on the 
sparc32 issue.

Regards
 	Mark Fortescue.

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Friday 06 July 2007, Mark Fortescue wrote:

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For me, the requirement is to keep support for the cards indicated in
arch/ppc/config/xxx_defconfig (as I have one that I might what to use with
linux) in the same way as they are supported in ARCH=ppc.

The one thing that is holding up the transition to arch/powerpc is lack
of people with access to the respective boards. If you have one board
that you care about, it would be good if you look into getting it moved
over. Tell us if you have problems doing so. It shouldn't be all that
hard any more, and if it is, maybe some documentation is missing.

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I have just made some tweeks to get ARCH=ppc building for me but I still
need to sort out what is required to get around *** Error: Headers not
exportable for this architecture (ppc).

You should simply install the headers with ARCH=powerc, even when the
kernel is built with ARCH=ppc. From the user space point of view, there
is only one set of headers.

	Arnd <><