On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:21:16PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:39:35PM +0000, Paride Legovini wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm just started working on some mvme5100 boards, and so I discovered > > that support for these cards has been dropped with linux-2.6.27 due to > > lack of interest. Here is the relevent post on linuxppc-embedded: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-embed...@ozlabs.org/msg30049.html > > > > Well, I'd really like to see support for the mvme5100 to be reintegrated > > in the kernel. I'm willing to help on this, but at the moment I don't > > know how much work is to be done, as I don't know how the switch from > > ppc to powerpc changed things. > > A lot, these are PreP platforms. I'm using several MVME24xx/26xx/27xx > here (some have been running continously over a decade). They have > a lot of similarities with MVME5100 if I remember correctly. > > I don't have time right now (especially if I am alone) to write > support for them, but I am interested in running a more recent > kernel, provided it's not too bloated (some machines only have > 16MB of RAM).
This is quite discouraging, I think I'll just keep using linux-2.6.26.8, the last kernel supporting the mvme5100 (afaik). I'd like to work on a patch for newer kernels, but I have to finish a project in a reasonable time, so unfortunately I can't start studying these kernel internals now. Anyway, if you'll feel like working on it tell me, I'll be happy to help. Paride _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
