[PATCH v5 1/1] powerpc/embedded6xx: Add support for Motorola/Emerson MVME5100

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jan 8 10:51:10 EST 2014


On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 12:23 +1100, Stephen 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-3.13-rc2 and has been boot tested.
> 
> Only boards with 512 Mb of memory are known to work.
> 
> V1->V2:
> 	Address comments by Kumar Gala and Scott Wood.
> 	Minor adjustment to platforms/embedded6xx/Kconfig to ensure
> 		correct indentation where possible.
> 
> V2->V3:
> 	Address comments by Scott Wood and Ben Herrenschmidt.
> 	Address errors reported by checkpatch.
> 
> V3->V4:
> 	Address comment by Geert Uytterhoeven
> 	Add tested by Alessio Bogani.
> 
> V4->V5:
> 	Correct horrible typo in patch history.
> 	Kular Gama is Kumar Gala.

The patch history should go below the --- line, as it's for reviewers
who have seen previous versions rather than for the git history.

-Scott




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