On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:43:59PM -0500, Becky Bruce wrote: > >> Maybe it would make more sense for you guys to slice the platforms > >> differently, and have a common platform for the eval boards you have > >> with ULi on them instead of grouping it by core used by the processor > >> on the board. > >> > >> (In other words, move 86xx over under 85xx, since there wouldn't be > >> much > >> left over anyway). > > > > Moving 86xx (classic 74xx core) under 85xx (book e500 core) makes > > even less sense to me. > > Yeah, that makes *no* sense to me either. It's an unfortunate > artifact of the naming of boards to include the core name. While the > devices and boards may be similar, once you have bookE vs non-bookE > cores, they become quite different.
It doesn't make sense if you move 86xx under 85xx right now, no. What I meant (but didn't write) was more along the lines of forking off a new platform (I don't know if you have a common code name for the SoC side, but fsl-whatever) that contains the SoC and board support for the parts and boards that share much (looks like the latest gen 85xx and 8641 would be candidates). Looks like the CPM2-based stuff could be candidates for something similar as well, but there's less activity there so there's less reason to rework those, I suppose. Of course, down the road I'm sure there'll be a part that contains 75% of the current SoC, plus something new. And the next gen after that only contains the 25% non-shared plus 75% brand new stuff and it all falls apart. Not knowing your roadmap I have a hard time judging if that's likely though. :-) -Olof _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
