Hi Greg, On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:19:44PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: > Hi Philippe, > > On 09/01/2009 05:59 PM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:22:37AM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Am Friday 14 August 2009 13:22:59 schrieb Philippe De Muyter: >>>> After reading this : >>>> http://rtg.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/docs/da-sa-txt/sa-steal.pdf >>>> >>>> I don't feel anymore it is interesting. >>> >>> I'm the author of this document and as far as I know, Freescale has >>> merged >>> some of the change we made coresponding to my paper. But I don't have any >> >> IIRC, systec's name comes in some files distributed with the M5484lite >> develpoment board. but these are patches against linux-2.6.25 that do not >> apply anymore to the current version of linux kernel, and I see no sign >> of ongoing work to merge them into the current kernel. Kurt Mahan sent >> even some bad news from the freescale team. There is also >> the problem of the m68knommu/m68k merge : all the coldfire ports are >> currently in m68knommu, but the m547x/m548x port is in m68k, leading to >> some code duplication. >>> hint about the current performance as we still use the old code base. >>> Nevertheless I would be interested about current performance values. >> >> I prefer to work with mainstream kernel, so I don't think I'll test >> the freescale port, sorry. >> >> I'd be glad. though, to help pushing or push myself a M548x port (perhaps >> MMU-less) to the current kernel. > > I am certainly happy to push upstream any MMUless m68knommu patches > that support M548x. > > Longer term I think we need to fully merge m68k and m68knommu > before we push any MMU ColdFire patches to mainline.
I fully agree with that. Who is currently working on the m68k/m68knommu merge ? Is there a mailing-list, website or other network resource about that ? The arch trees of m68k and m68knommu have different structures. What will the structure of the merged tree look like ? Best regards Philippe _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
