Re: [PATCH] General CHRP/MPC5K2 Platform and drivers support - to comment

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 01:06 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Nicolas DET wrote:
> 
> > This 'big' patch adds support for CHRP/MPC52xx based platform.  
> > Here, this is the bPlan's Efika computer (http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/ 
> > efika_spec_en.html)
> >
> > We know this patch is not totaly compliant with Documentation/ 
> > CodingStyle/.
> >
> > We would like people to comment and review it. This way we would  
> > provide a new patch with the changes required (if any) for an  
> > upcomming merge in the kernel.
> >
> > This patch has been applied on the kernel 2.6.18.1.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas DET <nd@bplan-gmbh.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Sven Luther <sl@bplan-gmbh.de>
> 
> I think it would be extremely useful to get a dump of what the device- 
> tree looks like.  We have to be very careful to device nodes for 52xx  
> components are competed consistent between this 'CHRP' style and a  
> more embedded 52xx boards.

They should use either the /soc bus or the of_platform stuff (I'm coming
up with some reworked of_platform that can be useful to them).

Ben.