Re: [PATCH] prom_free_prom_memory for QEMU

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:58:59PM +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:

> > I was actually planning to remove the Qemu platform for 2.6.25.  The
> > Malta emulation has become so good that there is no more point in having
> > the underfeatured synthetic platform that CONFIG_QEMU is.
> 
> I wholeheartedly agree with that. It is a godsend to me that I can use
> identical configs to build the kernels for QEMU and for a physical Malta.
> Emulation is more convenient to me because QEMU boots and runs faster
> than the board I'm working with. Many thanks for that to QEMU developers.
> 
> Off the topic, how about the plans to remove Atlas support?

Maciej is promising to fix it up since a few years ;-)  Aside of that it's
safe to say the Atlas is dead like a coffin nail.

The main problem with the Atlas is the SAA9730 SOC which is broken in an
infinite number of totally pervert ways, I'm told.  I know of no systems
other than the Atlas using it.

  Ralf


[Index of Archives]     [Linux MIPS Home]     [LKML Archive]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux]     [Git]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux Hams]

  Powered by Linux