From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261186AbVDTArg (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:47:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261245AbVDTArg (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:47:36 -0400 Received: from natsmtp00.rzone.de ([81.169.145.165]:55518 "EHLO natsmtp00.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261186AbVDTArd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:47:33 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/4] ppc64: prepare for integration of BPA platform Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:49:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504200149.22063.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This series of patches adds a bit of infrastructure in preparation of getting the Broadband Processor Architecture (BPA) into the kernel as a new platform type of ppc64. BPA is currently used in a single machine from IBM, with others likely to be added at a later point. None of these preparation patches are really specific to the architecture itself. Hopefully, I will be able to send the actual platform code really soon now. BPA and pSeries can share some code, mostly because they are both using rtas. The first two patches are splitting out the common code from the pSeries_pci implementation into a generic rtas_pci base. The nvram and watchdog drivers are pretty generic and are first used in the new machine. Arnd <><