On 12 Feb 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Ron. I am going to need to do a branch soon as I do the Hammer port and integrate a small C compiler. And I want to make some clean fixes and remove some of the backwards compatibility cruft, and the linuxbios 1.0 code base is an inappropriate place to target. It should be possible to roll in most of the improvements into the 1.0 codebase, but that will just increase the clutter of the codebase.
OK, but be aware that a person here is doing the PPC port, so we'll need to see how to keep him up-to-date with what you're doing.
Although the PPC code is mostly C, since the cache-as-ram trick is actually well-supported and working on that architecture. We don't want to drop too many mainboards off the edge in the long term.
A branch would be a good place to fix up support for multiple south and north bridges.
ron