FYI. For those not subscribed to linuxppc-dev or linuxppc64-dev. - kumar
Begin forwarded message: > From: "Paul Mackerras" <paulus at samba.org> > Date: August 2, 2005 10:07:34 PM CDT > To: <linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org>, <linuxppc64-dev at ozlabs.org> > Subject: Merging ppc32 and ppc64 > > > At OLS I discussed the idea of merging the ppc32 and ppc64 > architectures in the Linux kernel with various ppc32 and ppc64 kernel > hackers and users. There was broad agreement that this would be a > good thing to do, so we are going to go ahead and do it. > > The plan is to create include/asm-powerpc and arch/powerpc directories > for the merged architecture and move stuff in there as it gets > merged. The existing ppc32 and ppc64 directories will stay around > until they are no longer useful. The intention is not to break > anything that currently works; however, we do not plan to move unused > and unmaintained platforms into the merged architecture. > > The advantage of merging is that it will reduce the maintenance effort > and reduce the instances where a common bug gets fixed in one > architecture but not the other. It will also make it easier to > support 64-bit embedded systems as they become more common. > > I don't see the merge as changing the actual code that gets executed > on any given platform very much, except in one respect: we are going > to standardize on a flattened device tree as the way that information > about the platform gets passed from the boot loader to the kernel. > > Comments? Flames? :) > > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev >
