From: Meelis Roos <hidden> Date: 2007-08-22 11:50:07
It seems no one cares for arch/ppc any more but the move to powerpc was
not finished completely (PReP subarch was not migrated but sees users, I
do not know about the user base of the other subarches). So I have been
thinking about migrating PReP support to arch/powerpc myself since I use
it.
Any general guidelines or specific hints about that? I have looked
around in the code and some pieces are clearly PReP specific (setup,
pci, boot) but others seem wuite a bit mixed up with other subarches.
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Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:50:07 +0300 (EEST)
Meelis Roos [off-list ref] wrote:
It seems no one cares for arch/ppc any more but the move to powerpc was
not finished completely (PReP subarch was not migrated but sees users, I
do not know about the user base of the other subarches). So I have been
thinking about migrating PReP support to arch/powerpc myself since I use
it.
The merge is still on-going. So it's not "finished" at all.
Any general guidelines or specific hints about that? I have looked
around in the code and some pieces are clearly PReP specific (setup,
pci, boot) but others seem wuite a bit mixed up with other subarches.
David Gibson and Rob Landley had a quite interesting discussion about
PReP last night on IRC. You might want to contact them and see if they
came to any conclusions.
josh
From: Sven Luther <hidden> Date: 2007-08-22 13:04:33
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:50:07PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
It seems no one cares for arch/ppc any more but the move to powerpc was
not finished completely (PReP subarch was not migrated but sees users, I
do not know about the user base of the other subarches). So I have been
thinking about migrating PReP support to arch/powerpc myself since I use
it.
Any general guidelines or specific hints about that? I have looked
around in the code and some pieces are clearly PReP specific (setup,
pci, boot) but others seem wuite a bit mixed up with other subarches.
I don't have much time for this right now, but i am interested in
helping out in a PReP arch/powerpc port, as this would allow debian to
drop the arch/ppc -prep flavour. I have both a motorola and an IBM PReP
box here to play with and test.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
From: David Gibson <hidden> Date: 2007-08-23 03:37:03
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:29:56AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:50:07 +0300 (EEST)
Meelis Roos [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
It seems no one cares for arch/ppc any more but the move to powerpc was
not finished completely (PReP subarch was not migrated but sees users, I
do not know about the user base of the other subarches). So I have been
thinking about migrating PReP support to arch/powerpc myself since I use
it.
The merge is still on-going. So it's not "finished" at all.
quoted
Any general guidelines or specific hints about that? I have looked
around in the code and some pieces are clearly PReP specific (setup,
pci, boot) but others seem wuite a bit mixed up with other subarches.
David Gibson and Rob Landley had a quite interesting discussion about
PReP last night on IRC. You might want to contact them and see if they
came to any conclusions.
Yes, my draft PReP support patch, tweaked this morning to build again
(changes roughly identical to Rob Landley's patch, I believe) is at:
http://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/home/tmp/prep-support
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