[PATCH v2] powerpc/booke: Add support for new e500mc core

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 18 05:03:41 EST 2008


On Jun 17, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> We should probably depend on !PPC_85xx until we can support such a
>>> configuration, rather than have it break in less obvious ways.
>> I don't see any reason for this.  While our marketing may say its  
>> not an 85xx anymore its pretty close to one.  For example I plan on  
>> the board code living in platforms/85xx.
>
> The reason is that if we can't build both into the same kernel, the  
> kconfig shouldn't pretend that we can.

I see what you mean.  We'll worry about this once we add the first  
platform and maybe by than we'll have fixed some of the other issues.

Also, there is a direction that does work.  You can run an e500v2  
kernel on an e500mc.  Its just going the other way around that can be  
an issue.

- k



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