Re: Synology DS109+ booting NetBSD (to root prompt)

Matt Thomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Radoslaw Kujawa wrote:

> 
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Why do we have to have so many different 'arches'?  I get it that some
>> processor families are different enough that one can't
>> (currently/easily) build a single kernel that supports both, but I think
>> we already have that, and I don't see the benefit of splitting to many.
>> I could see ppc vs ppce (booke ppc), but I'm boggled by evbpcc and
>> nasppc being different.  What's the reason it can't fit in one?
> 
> And what about ppc440 support (not existing yet)? I does not fit into any current PPC sub architecture (405, OEA, BOOKE) support… 

440 fits under booke.  Support just hasn't risen to the top of my stack
but I designed the booke support so the 440 can just slide right in.
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