[PATCH] Added support for PRTLVT based boards (MPC5121)

[John Rigby]

I have a set of patches that I will be submitting later today that
adds the generic board support without removing ADS.  So I would
prefer for you to just submit a device tree file for your board.

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:01 AM, David Jander <david.jander at protonic.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:33:48 John Rigby wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Looks like your device tree is based on the beta ltib bsp.  There were
>> some changes in release 1 that you may want to incorporate:
>>
>> First as a convention I changed all the interrupt numbers in the
>> tuples to be decimal.  I like this better because the interrupts are
>> decimal in the reference manual.
>>
>> Second, the new clock driver that is in the release 1 bsp and will be
>> posting here shortly no longer uses the device tree, so you can remove
>> all the clk-name, clk-parent, clk-ctrl properties.
>
> Thanks, I'll incorporate these changes and submit again.
> Btw, do you agree with the following part of the patch?
>
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Kconfig
>> > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Kconfig index 4c0da0c..57b3912 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Kconfig
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Kconfig
>> > @@ -2,18 +2,20 @@ config PPC_MPC512x
>> >        bool
>> >        select FSL_SOC
>> >        select IPIC
>> > -       default n
>> >
>> >  config PPC_MPC5121
>> >        bool
>> >        select PPC_MPC512x
>> > -       default n
>> >
>> > -config MPC5121_ADS
>> > -       bool "Freescale MPC5121E ADS"
>> > +config MPC5121_GENERIC
>> > +       bool "Generic support for simple MPC5121 based boards"
>> >        depends on PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC32
>> >        select DEFAULT_UIMAGE
>> >        select PPC_MPC5121
>> >        help
>> > -         This option enables support for the MPC5121E ADS board.
>> > -       default n
>> > +         This option enables support for a simple MPC5121 based boards
>> > which +         do not need a custom platform specific setup.
>> > +
>> > +         Boards that are compatible with this generic platform support
>> > +         are: Freescale MPC5121 ADS and Protonic LVT based boards
>> > (ZANMCU +         and VICVT2).
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Makefile
>> > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Makefile index 232c89f..9d40a2e 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Makefile
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/Makefile
>> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> >  #
>> >  # Makefile for the Freescale PowerPC 512x linux kernel.
>> >  #
>> > -obj-$(CONFIG_MPC5121_ADS)      += mpc5121_ads.o
>> > +obj-$(CONFIG_MPC5121_GENERIC)  += mpc5121_generic.o
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc5121_ads.c
>> > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc5121_generic.c similarity index 73%
>> > rename from arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc5121_ads.c
>> > rename to arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc5121_generic.c
>> > index 50bd3a3..824ddbb 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc5121_ads.c
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc5121_generic.c
>>[...]
>
> The idea is to make it as simple as possible to add new platforms that are
> basically just derivatives of the same.
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> David Jander
> Protonic Holland.
>