[RFC PATCH 00/17] powerpc/e500: separate e500 from e500mc

[Kyle Moffett]

(Sorry for the repost, I accidentally omitted Baruch's email).

Hello,

I saw Baruch Siach's patch:
  powerpc: 85xx: separate e500 from e500mc

Unfortunately, that patch breaks the dependencies for the P5020DS
platform and does not fix the underlying code which does not
understand what the ambiguous "CONFIG_E500" means.

In order to fix the issue at the fundamental level, I created the
following 17-patch series loosely based on Baruch's patch.

=== High-Level Summary ===

The e500v1/v2 and e500mc/e5500 CPU families are not compatible with
each other, yet they share the same "CONFIG_E500" Kconfig option.

The following patch series splits the 32-bit CPU support into two
separate options: "CONFIG_FSL_E500_V1_V2" and "CONFIG_FSL_E500MC".
Additionally, the 64-bit e5500 support is separated to its own config
option ("CONFIG_FSL_E5500") which is automatically combined with
either 32-bit e500MC or 64-bit Book-3E when the P5020DS board support
is enabled.

I based the patches on v3.2-rc1, please let me know if I should
update the patches against a different tree.

The first 4 patches stand on their own merits; they are generic code
cleanups necessary to support the later patches.

I'd like to know what you all think.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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