Jon Masters wrote: > I am working on a 405D port using a base kernel of originally 2.4.20 and > now 2.4.21 from kernel.org rather than Montavista etc. > > There are several 4xx ports kicking around and each bodges the tlb stuff > in pgtable.h and elsewhere makes simple fixes to make the stock kernel > actually work...though there are several different offerings by now. > Would someone care to share experiences privately about 4xx ports? > > Cheers, > > Jon. > > P.S. The stock 2.4.21 kernel on has a bunch of very trivial bugs (from > losing a register in the syscall handler to breaking shared ptes) and > will not compile correctly out of the box so to speak. A lot of people > seem to be using the Montavista tree as a result. Now rather than > whining I would also like to help so am asking to make contact with > whoever co-ordinates merging these trees together etc.
We've been using the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree for ppc405. I would really love to see its fixes merged into the vanilla tree, but haven't had occasion to do more than whine about it myself. - Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
