Excerpts from Alistair Popple's message of May 9, 2020 6:36 pm: > On Saturday, 9 May 2020 5:58:57 PM AEST Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> Excerpts from Paul Mackerras's message of May 9, 2020 3:02 pm: >> > Microwatt is a FPGA-based implementation of the Power ISA. It >> > currently only implements little-endian 64-bit mode, and does >> > not (yet) support SMP. >> > >> > This adds a new machine type to support FPGA-based SoCs with a >> > Microwatt core. >> >> Very cool! >> >> Would there be any point sharing this with the "naked metal" platform >> Alistair has for booting POWER in L3 without OPAL? Or is it easy enough >> to have a several different simple 64s platforms? > > It looks pretty similar at the moment, I've been meaning to clean those > patches up and send them upstream but Paul has beaten me to it. The main > difference so far is how the console is setup. For booting cache contained I > was using a device tree pointing at a standard UART driver and enabling the > standard OF platform device tree probing.
Well I'd only merge them if you think it makes sense. If the platform is a perfectly good abstraction for the differences and merging them would just result in painful special cases it wouldn't be worthwhile. It's clearly not a lot of code. Thanks, Nick
