Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:30:28 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: powerpc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beware of revision 218075 Message-ID: <4D449504.7030209@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <550814DC-3E80-401C-B725-BFCB391726DF@mac.com> References: <550814DC-3E80-401C-B725-BFCB391726DF@mac.com>
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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
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