[PATCH v2] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add support for FSL 64-bit e5500 core

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Oct 13 07:11:38 EST 2010


On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:55:42 -0500
Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:50:52 -0500
> > Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> The new e5500 core is similar to the e500mc core but adds 64-bit
> >> support.  We support running it in 32-bit mode as it is identical to the
> >> e500mc.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> >> ---
> >> * Updated to remove CONFIG_PPC_E5500 and use E500MC
> > 
> > It still has E500 || E500MC all over the place...
> > 
> > If E500MC is not going to imply E500 that should be consistent for both
> > 32 and 64 bit -- though I think it would make more sense that E500MC
> > does imply E500.
> > 
> > -Scott
> 
> I have a problem with Kconfig and getting E500MC option to only exist in the proper cases.

Does having P5020DS (and any future 64-bit-capable board)
explicitly select E500 as well as PPC_E500MC avoid the issue?

-Scott



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