[PATCH v3 4/4] powerpc: Board support for GE IMP3A

Martyn Welch martyn.welch at ge.com
Tue Mar 13 23:32:57 EST 2012


On 13/03/12 11:51, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Martyn Welch <martyn.welch at ge.com> wrote:
> 
>> Initial board support for the GE IMP3A, a 3U compactPCI card with a p2020
>> processor.
> (...)
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/ge_imp3a_defconfig
>> @@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
>> +CONFIG_PPC_85xx=y
>> +CONFIG_SMP=y
>> +CONFIG_NR_CPUS=2
>> +CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
>> +CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
>> +CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
>> +CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
>> +CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3=y
>> +CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y
> 
> This habit of changing a lot of defconfig stuff in a patch dealing with other
> stuff is alien in the ARM world. Especially when changing a horde of stuff
> that has nothing to do with the patch subject.
> 

This is adding the defconfig, it's support for a new board:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/ge_imp3a_defconfig
b/arch/powerpc/configs/ge_imp3a_defconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8c51a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/ge_imp3a_defconfig


> But I don't really know how PPC does these things so who am I to
> speak ...
> 
> BTW: doesn't the "make saveconfig" reduce defconfigs on PPC?
> Paging Uwe on this.

This is the output of "make savedefconfig".

Martyn

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