RE: Adding new platform to build hierarchy

Martin,

> How do I introduce new platforms into the build structure so I can
> select them with "make menuconfig"? Which files to I need to change?
> 
> Yes, it's a newbie question, but you don't need to explain Makefiles,
I
> just don't understand these autoconf/automake things. ;-)
>

The kernel isn't configured via autoconf/automake; it uses the cml2
configuration tool (see for example http://catb.org/esr/cml2/). For
adding a new platform to the powerpc kernel (and kdb, which is compiled
together with the kernel), you'd roughly have to do the following:

- add your platform configuration to the architecture's configuration
menu files in kernel/config/powerpc.cml and kernel/config/rules.cml
- create platform-specific directories under src/platform/rawppc,
kdb/platform/rawppc, include/platform/rawppc, ...
- add your source and header files to the platform directories
- create a Makeconf file for each source directory specifying the build
rules for your source files

Best Regards,
-Jan