[PATCH 0/4] PowerPC: 440GRx Rainier board support.

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 31 23:59:19 EST 2007


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:21:13 +0300
Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:45:11 +0300
> > Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> The following patches add PowerPC 440GRx Rainier board support.
> >> The board is almost identical to Sequoia, but doesn't have USB
> >> and FPU is not supported.
> > 
> > So why do we need anything other than the DTS and the defconfig?  I
> > would think the sequoia wrapper and platform files would suffice
> > completely for this.
> 
> Yes, they would, but how to handle the board name in this case?
> I mean the resulting image would be cuImage.sequoia for rainier and the 
> DTS board name has to be sequoia for rainier too.
> I don't now, may be it's not a big deal to call rainier a sequoia though.
> What do you think?

Let me think about this for a bit.  Theoretically, there should be a
way to have a common code base between these two boards and have the
images use the right names.

josh



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