[PATCH 4/10] Re-organize Kconfig code for 4xx in arch/powerpc

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Apr 19 12:59:16 EST 2007


Paul, I think this one is ready to merge, providing it doesn't
conflict with anything in-progress in Kumar's Kconfig cleanup work.
Kumar, can you comment?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:36:26PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Now that we always take a device tree in arch/powerpc, there's no good
> reason not to allow a single kernel to support multiple embedded 4xx
> boards - the correct platform code can be selected based on the device
> tree information.
> 
> Therefore, this patch re-arranges the 4xx Kconfig code to allow this.
> In addition we:
> 	- use "select" instead of depends to configure the correct
> 	  config options for specific 4xx CPUs and workarounds, which
> 	  makes the information about specific boards and CPUs less
> 	  scattered.
> 	- Some old, unused (in arch/powerpc) config options are
> 	  removed: WANT_EARLY_SERIAL, IBM_OCP, etc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg at au1.ibm.com>

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