linux-kernel - Re: Why is ARCH m68k hardwired into drivers/net/wan/Makefile?

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:45:38 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why is ARCH m68k hardwired into drivers/net/wan/Makefile?

Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> writes:

> Explicitly saying somewhere "this card has an onbaord m68k processor even if 
> the host doesn't" might be nice.  I eventually figured it out, but neither the 
> makefile nor the firmware source actually said the card had an onboard 
> processor, and my first glance at the kconfig help text just went "it's code for 
> a QUICC processor, that's one of those freescale SoCs isnt it?  I vaguely 
> recall booting Linux on one of those back in 2006..."

QUICC = QUad Integrated Communications Controller (Morotola 68360) chip
and is based on m68020 IIRC. There is no "normal" m68k CPU on this board.

PowerQUICC is a different thing.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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