From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6DDDE44C for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:13:46 +1000 (EST) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h27so2768845wxd.15 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:13:45 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Sascha Hauer" Subject: Re: mpc5200b custom board upstreamable? In-Reply-To: <20080424151237.GI6692@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20080424151237.GI6692@pengutronix.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > Hi all, > > I had the intention to push the code for a custom mpc5200b board (freely > available, no internal project) upstream. After cleaning up the code I > realized that actually no board specific code is left and our board is > well handled by the mpc5200_simple_platform machine. > > The only issue is that the machine only matches things like > "schindler,cm5200", there's no generic entry. Would it be possible to > add a "generic-mpc52xx" entry to this list? I'm being cautious about this for the time being. I'd like to have a generic match mechanism, but I don't want to do something that isn't easy to recover from if it turns out to be brain dead. For now, just add your board name to the explicit match list. > > Another question: are defconfig and dts files for custom boards acceptable > for upstream? Yes, in the arch/powerpc/configs/52xx/ directory. Cheers, g -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.