Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] powerpc/embedded6xx: Add support for Motorola/Emerson MVME5100.

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 10:30 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Stephen N Chivers wrote:
> 
> > Add support for the Motorola/Emerson MVME5100 Single Board Computer.
> > 
> > The MVME5100 is a 6U form factor VME64 computer with:
> > 
> >        - A single MPC7410 or MPC750 CPU
> >        - A HAWK Processor Host Bridge (CPU to PCI) and
> >          MultiProcessor Interrupt Controller (MPIC)
> >        - Up to 500Mb of onboard memory
> >        - A M48T37 Real Time Clock (RTC) and Non-Volatile Memory chip
> >        - Two 16550 compatible UARTS
> >        - Two Intel E100 Fast Ethernets
> >        - Two PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) Slots
> >        - PPCBug Firmware
> > 
> > The HAWK PHB/MPIC is compatible with the MPC10x devices.
> > 
> > There is no onboard disk support. This is usually provided by installing a 
> > PMC
> > in first PMC slot.
> > 
> > This patch revives the board support, it was present in early 2.6
> > series kernels. The board support in those days was by Matt Porter of
> > MontaVista Software.
> > 
> > CSC Australia has around 31 of these boards in service. The kernel in use
> > for the boards is based on 2.6.31. The boards are operated without disks
> > from a file server. 
> > 
> > This patch is based on linux-3.11-rc4 and has been boot tested.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Chivers <schivers@csc.com>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mvme5100.dts            |  195 ++
> > arch/powerpc/boot/mvme5100.c                  |   28 +
> > arch/powerpc/configs/mvme5100_defconfig       | 2597 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/mvme5100.c |  288 +++
> > 4 files changed, 3108 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> Please look at fixing the white space issues you seem to have throughout this patch.
> 
> Also, we don't take full defconfigs in the tree, look at 'make savedefconfig'

Why does this board need its own defconfig at all?  Just add it to
ppc6xx_defconfig.

-Scott