On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:18:04PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > The big problem we have is that the only commonality between different > > SoCs is that the CPU executes ARM instructions. Everything else is > > entirely up to the SoC designer - eg location of memory, spacing of > > memory banks, type of interrupt controller, etc is all highly SoC > > specific. Nothing outside of the ARM CPU itself is standardized. > > That sounds very similar to m68k, which does support generic kernels > (except for Sun-3, which uses a completely different MMU)? For MIPS we currently have a concept of system families. The user selects one in the "System type" Kconfig menu. With few exceptions that are not worth considering these system types are incompatible so there are currently 37 families of incompatible platforms with more being added. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
