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

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 18 05:55:46 EST 2008


On Jun 17, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Maybe have a "choice" config option for minimum supported e500  
> version, with higher settings being better optimized but  
> incompatible with older hardware?  This would be similar to how x86  
> does it.

For now I'm going to stick with what we got.  Hopefully we can work  
through the issues and have a single kernel support v1/v2/mc with all  
the features.

- k



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