From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 23:30:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: powerpc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7881E106564A for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:30:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E40A8FC12 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:30:31 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LFT009002IVGU00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for powerpc@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:30:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-68-88.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.68.88]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LFT002DB2ITNF20@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:30:30 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:30:28 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <550814DC-3E80-401C-B725-BFCB391726DF@mac.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-id: <4D449504.7030209@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.208.68.88 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-14, Version=5.6.0.2009776, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.1.29.221815, SenderIP=76.208.68.88 References: <550814DC-3E80-401C-B725-BFCB391726DF@mac.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101214 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Cc: powerpc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beware of revision 218075 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:30:31 -0000 On 01/29/11 15:04, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > All, > > Support for the MPC85xx development systems was broken 7 months ago > with initial support for G5 hardware and further regressed by the > support for FDT. > > Revision 218075 has some sweeping changes related to the interrupt > framework, so please beware. Since I don't have G5 hardware it's > possible that G5 is broken due to it, so I appreciate getting a > thumbs up or thumbs down from anyone updating to 218075 or later. > > I'll be causing some more churn in the coming weeks, but that > should be mostly related to the FDT support and as such should not > impact any powerpc platforms other than mpc85xx. > > FYI, > I would really have appreciated a heads up and a chance to test this before it went into the tree. I would also note that you appear well on your way to duplicating all the PCI logic in /sys/powerpc/ofw, and that unifying OFW/FDT, since they are the same thing, would probably save a lot of pain down the road. -Nathan