[RFC PATCH 1/1] powerpc/embedded6xx: Add support for Motorola/Emerson MVME5100.

[Kumar Gala]

On Aug 7, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Stephen N Chivers wrote:

> Add support for the Motorola/Emerson MVME5100 Single Board Computer.
> 
> The MVME5100 is a 6U form factor VME64 computer with:
> 
>        - A single MPC7410 or MPC750 CPU
>        - A HAWK Processor Host Bridge (CPU to PCI) and
>          MultiProcessor Interrupt Controller (MPIC)
>        - Up to 500Mb of onboard memory
>        - A M48T37 Real Time Clock (RTC) and Non-Volatile Memory chip
>        - Two 16550 compatible UARTS
>        - Two Intel E100 Fast Ethernets
>        - Two PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) Slots
>        - PPCBug Firmware
> 
> The HAWK PHB/MPIC is compatible with the MPC10x devices.
> 
> There is no onboard disk support. This is usually provided by installing a 
> PMC
> in first PMC slot.
> 
> This patch revives the board support, it was present in early 2.6
> series kernels. The board support in those days was by Matt Porter of
> MontaVista Software.
> 
> CSC Australia has around 31 of these boards in service. The kernel in use
> for the boards is based on 2.6.31. The boards are operated without disks
> from a file server. 
> 
> This patch is based on linux-3.11-rc4 and has been boot tested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Chivers <schivers at csc.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mvme5100.dts            |  195 ++
> arch/powerpc/boot/mvme5100.c                  |   28 +
> arch/powerpc/configs/mvme5100_defconfig       | 2597 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/mvme5100.c |  288 +++
> 4 files changed, 3108 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Please look at fixing the white space issues you seem to have throughout this patch.

Also, we don't take full defconfigs in the tree, look at 'make savedefconfig'

- k