On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:01:52PM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote: > 1. Would it be possible to lump some of the different MIPS variants > together more closely? In my dream world I could build one kernel > that would boot on every mips architecture. This way the work can be > more general. As it stands now, if you want Tx39 or Vr41 variants > you're working out of a different tree. With the number of SoC core > products coming out at present, this predicament is only likely to > get more serious. I know at one point in time you could boot a > single ARM kernel on several different systems and it would adapt > it's processor specifics at runtime. Such a design might help to > bring the MIPS world together a bit. I'm about 2/3 of the way through writing a patch that will bring boot-time machine detection and parameters to mips - this is similar to a scheme that was suggested some time ago by Jun and is also based on a short discussion I had with Ralf about cleaning up proc.c. This is only the first step, though, as there are a lot of ifdefs in headers and such. I will release this patch for review sometime in the next week. -- Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org> http://foobazco.org/~wesolows ------(( Project Foobazco Coordinator and Network Administrator ))------ "I should have crushed his marketing-addled skull with a fucking bat."
