Hi pradeepa, > I am new to Linux porting. My interest is to port General Linux into > MPC8548E custom board.
Welcome! > I have the following queries: > > 1) In latest linux sources you will find two folders in linux/arch path. > One is powerpc and > other is ppc. How I will find whether I have to change powerpc or ppc > folder? What sources for "latest linux" are you looking at? The sources I have available only contain "powerpc" and that's how it should be ;) Moreover you should first try to reuse as much as possible before "changing" anything. > 3) Is there any common procedure to be followed when porting for a new > custom board or > to a new architecture? > Can anybody please tell me the procedures I should follow. For such a well-known power CPU, you should take a look at the device trees contained in arch/powerpc/boot/dts and find one as close to your hardware as possible. Maybe mpc8548cds[1]? Then work from there to the outside. Also as this is a general Linux question not related to ELDK, you should use the offical powerpc mailing list[2]. Cheers Detlev [1] http://git.denx.de/?p=linux-2.6-denx.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8548cds.dts [2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev -- I like having a machine called 'elvis' on the network because that way, I can say 'ping elvis' and have it come back with 'elvis is alive'. -- Carl Shipley -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ eldk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/eldk
