[PATCH/2.6.17-rc4 1/10] Powerpc: Add general support for mpc7 448h pc2 (Taiga) platform

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu May 18 17:22:09 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:12 +0800, Zang Roy-r61911 wrote:
> > I'm not repeating Kumar's comments about that CONFIG_7xxx 
> > thing and that
> > 7xxx/ directory, it should all go.
> > 
> 
> Should I move my code to embedded6xx?

Probably for now yes.

> I will get rid of those tables.  I can see that in file
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_ads.c (2.6.17-rc4), there is
> a similar table. Should it be removed in future :)?

Yes. And somebody beaten up for letting that stuff leak into
arch/powerpc :)

> > Yes, please do so, we will not accept a board that does the above :)
> 
> I just do the same thing as 85xx :).

Yes and I intend to LART Kumar seriously for that next time I meet
him :)

> > We need a generic add_bridge that goes through PCI bridges and
> > instanciate based on their type as provided by the device-tree. You
> > should try to work in that direction...

I suggest you also read my comments to Mark A. Greer as most of that
stuff overlaps... I wish I had more times to work myself on that but I'm
fairly overflowed at the moment...

Ben




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