[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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