[linuxsh-dev] Back from the dead

[NIIBE Y. <gn...@ch...>]

Hello Stuart, 

Nice to see you again.

Stuart Menefy wrote:
 > The first patch is probably the one most people will be interested in.
 > It's primary aim is to add support for 'generic' kernels, i.e. a single
 > kernel which can be booted onto multiple machines. At the moment its
 > main focus is on the board/machine level aspects of this, so all the
 > SolutionEngine/HP600/Overdrive #ifdefs have now been removed from the
 > code.
[...]
 > The machine is selected from the command line, for example:
 >   sh_mv=solutionengine
 > If the machine is not recognised then it defaulst to 'unknown', which
 > provides support for on-chip peripherials only.

I like it.  You've changed the meaning of 'generic' into runtime thing
(so far, it means 'non-specific').  This is great.

 > There are also some 'incidental' changes which are included, which are
 > worth pointing out:
 >  - marking an interrupt as type IPR, without calling set_ipr_data, caused
 >    the IRQ probing code to crash, so make_ipr_data now takes the extra
 >    parameters set_ipr_data used to.
 >  - record number of chars sent and received on SCI(F)
 >  - a bug fix to the TCP/IP checksumming code for when the src and/or
 >    destination addresses are misaligned.

Last one, the checksum code is really needed.  Takeshi and/or Sugioka-san
would thank you. :-)

And when I will find time, I'd like to enhance HERTBEAT feature you've
introduced, so that it will use BIOS interface.

 > The second patch adds PCI support for the Overdrive. Because this is
 > now so large (mainly becuause of a big FPG program) I've moved all
 > Overdrive related files into a separate directory. As this is probably
 > only a temporary measure (this is only needed for prototype boards), I
 > suggest we don't try and get this directory included in the mainstream
 > sources yet. Everything will build quite happily with it missing.

OK.

Could you please check all of them in?  Then, I'll merge Jesper's 7707
change over that.
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