linux-kernel - Re: Microblaze Linux release

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Message-Id: <200804160944.42734.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:44:41 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	monstr@...nam.cz, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@...inx.com>,
	John Williams <john.williams@...alogix.com>,
	jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, John Linn <John.Linn@...inx.com>,
	git-dev@...inx.com, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	git@...inx.com, microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microblaze Linux release

On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Michal Simek writes:
> 
> > I think so. Sharing code among archs looks nice and this way is definitely
> > right. But starting with communication with PowerPC guys that this code I want
> > to use in case that this code is not in vanilla. This is not good start for
> > doing this.
> 
> I have a commit queued up that moves lmb.c into the top-level lib
> directory so other architectures can use it easily.  Dave Miller
> wanted this so he could use it for sparc64.  That will go into Linus'
> tree when the merge window opens and will be in 2.6.26.  So I don't
> see any reason why microblaze couldn't use the LMB stuff.
> 

Right, fair enough. I was mostly objecting to the idea of creating another
copy of the lmb code when bootmem should be sufficient for what microblaze
needs. Using the code from lib/lmb.c sounds fair enough when it's already
there.

One more reason for the microblaze kernel to base on top of linux-next
instead of mainline.

	Arnd <><
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