Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:17:58 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: kbuild now support arch/$ARCH/include - time for ARCHs to convert |
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:26:04PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, David Howells wrote: > > > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > > > > > I think the more interesting aspect in m68knommu is what happens > > > > when asm-m68k gets moved. Does that work as well? > > > > > > Can m68knommu be merged into m68k and be made contingent on CONFIG_MMU? This > > > is what FRV does. > > > > Sure it can ;-) > > > > Actually I did a bit of work to add nommu support to m68k to make it > > boot on old MMU-less Amigas, but it dates back to the 2.6.8.1 era... > > > > The bigger issue is in those parts that are done differently by m68k and > > m68knommu (esp. head.S). > > > > Who's gonna take the work? :-) > > > This sort of merging is fairly easy to do incrementally, at least by > someone that has both platforms available. An easy first step would be to
Indeed. I have none of the currently supported m68knommu platforms, though. Don't know about Greg and m68k platforms (of course he can use ARAnyM ;-).
> move the m68knommu stuff that are implemented differently over as _nommu > files, similar to how the _32/_64 renames happened, and then set about > converging the two little by little. This is what I've been doing with > sh64->sh integration for example, despite fundamental differences like > having a totally different register layout and instruction set.
IC.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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