[PATCH v3 0/5] powerpc: apm82181: adding customer devices

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 12:06:10AM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been holding on to these devices dts' for a while now.
> But ever since the recent purge of the PPC405, I'm feeling
> the urge to move forward.
> 
> The devices in question have been running with OpenWrt since
> around 2016/2017. Back then it was linux v4.4 and required
> many out-of-tree patches (for WIFI, SATA, CRYPTO...), that
> since have been integrated. So, there's nothing else in the
> way I think.
> 
> A patch that adds the Meraki vendor-prefix has been sent
> separately, as there's also the Meraki MR32 that I'm working
> on as well. Here's the link to the patch:
> <https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20200822154045.16036-1-chunkeey@gmail.com/>
> 
> Now, I've looked around in the arch/powerpc for recent .dts
> and device submissions to get an understanding of what is
> required.
> >From the looks of it, it seems like every device gets a
> skeleton defconfig and a CONFIG_$DEVICE symbol (Like:
> CONFIG_MERAKI_MR24, CONFIG_WD_MYBOOKLIVE).
> 
> Will this be the case? Or would it make sense to further
> unite the Bluestone, MR24 and MBL under a common CONFIG_APM82181
> and integrate the BLUESTONE device's defconfig into it as well?
> (I've stumbled across the special machine compatible
> handling of ppc in the Documentation/devicetree/usage-model.rst
> already.)

I haven't found any traces of this to be applied. What is the status of this
patch series? And what is the general state of affairs for the PPC44x?


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko