GE GPIO and PIC support.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 19 06:41:26 EST 2010


On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Martyn Welch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently adding support for a GE board based on the Freescale
> P2020. This board has a cascaded interrupt controller and GPIO which
> should be compatible with drivers currently provided for the MPC8641D
> based boards that are already in the kernel.
> 
> At the moment the drivers (in gef_gpio.c and gef_pic.c) are in the
> "arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx" folder. As the p2020 is not 86xx, I guess
> I should move these drivers to a more central location. I'm currently
> not sure where would be best to move them to, I see
> "arch/powerpc/sysdev" and "arch/powerpc/platforms" as potential
> locations, where would be the most suitable?

I would suggest arch/powerpc/platforms as its board specific code and not chip specific.  However others gripe at me about that from time to time.

- k


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