ppc targets

Greg Watson gwatson at lanl.gov
Thu Nov 18 07:36:00 CET 2004


On Nov 18, 2004, at 6:13 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>
> Just a progress update before I go to bed.
>
> I have the totalimpact/briq building now.  There are a couple of things
> that are not quite right but nothing architectural.
>
> Looking at where the code is I should be able to get the
> sandpointx3+pmc/altimus/mpc7410 building.  Since there is only one pmc
> supported things look much simpler :)
>
> Beyond that a lot of my confusion has been looking at code and
> expecting it to work, or to handle the general case when in fact
> it doesn't.
>
> As I settle for merely fixing the code so it continues to do what
> it did before, I can successfully make a lot of progress.
>
> Eric
>

The problem with both the briq and the ep405pc is the lack of 
board-level documentation. This makes adding support painstakingly slow 
at best.

I will be satisfied having the code back to the point where at least 
development can continue.

Greg




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