On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:02:43AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 06:36:33AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > > perhaps a silly question but, given that the uClinux project > > > > is devoted to linux on MMU-less processors, why does the stock > > > > kernel tree have that single MMU-less port -- m68knommu -- and > > > > no other? > > > > > > Bogus question - e.g. the blackfin and h8300 ports in the stock > > > kernel are for MMU-less processors. > > > > whoops, you're right, my mistake. but the question remains -- why > > are *some* MMU-less architectures supported in the stock kernel > > and not others? or is it just a matter of someone working hard > > enough to get that architecture accepted and maintaining it? > > The latter. ok, so here's a question that's probably off-topic for this list but, what the heck ... i *may* be doing some work on a nios2 altera FPGA, for which there is a uClinux port. depending on what happens, is there any value in trying to extract the nios2-specific content from the (much larger) uClinux patch and trying to submit a nios2 port to the mainstream kernel? over at http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.6.x/, you can download a "big" uclinux patch for all ports that applies cleanly against 2.6.23. just for fun, i spent a few minutes identifying the nios2-specific content of that patch and noting how some of it is already out-of-date WRT the latest git tree (for example, the watchdog stuff has been moved from drivers/char/watchdog/ to drivers/watchdog/). if i *did* manage to pull out the nios2 content (and, let's say, started my own git tree for it that i kept compatible with the main tree), is there any chance that that might eventually be accepted into the main tree? or is that not how things work? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
