Re: HEADS-UP: mpc85xx support coming to HEAD

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:01 AM, Allen Briggs wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:46:06AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
>> Having gotten approval from DARPA to release the mpc85xx I did
>> for them, I'm about to commit that support to the tree.
>> 
>> part of this work included adding support for fast soft interrupts,
>> revamping how trapframes are done (intrframes are just partially
>> filled trapframes), etc.
> 
> Cool.
> 
>> OEA and the new Booke platforms work.  IBM4xx still need some work on
>> their exception code to deal with the new world order.
> 
> Have you considered putting your work on a branch and giving ibm4xx
> folks a chance to fix things on the branch before merging?  Or are
> the changes done in such a way that they will continue to work on
> the trunk until they're switched over?

The changes for ibm4xx have been made but testing them has revealed a few 
problems.  Going to see if the IBM simulator for the 405 will help track them 
down.