[PATCH 2/5] powerpc/40x: Add support for PowerPC 405EZ Acadia board

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Oct 11 04:08:06 EST 2008


On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:16:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>On Friday 10 October 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> It would, except for timing.  I didn't get a chance to convert
>> 40x over before the merge window opened and I'd rather not try
>> to cram it in during the 1 week we have.  And Acadia is ported
>> now (and has been for a few weeks), so getting that in seemed
>> to be an easier route to take.
>> 
>> I do have plans to convert 40x for 2.6.29, and if there are
>> major objections I can hold off Acadia until then.  I just
>> don't like holding back board ports for the "next re-org".
>> 
>
>How about just renaming 40x/acadia.c to 40x/ppc405_simple.c
>without the merge? Then you can merge in the other platforms
>as time permits and any other new ones can start using the
>_simple platform right away.

Hm.  That sounds like a really good idea.  I'll try go get that
done over the weekend and send out a rework of just that patch.

josh



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