[PATCH] Consolidate XILINX_VIRTEX board support

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Aug 11 00:37:09 EST 2007


On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Grant Likely wrote:

> On 8/6/07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Wolfgang Reissnegger wrote:
>>>
>>> Make support for Xilinx boards more generic, making it easier
>>> to add new boards. Add initial support for xupv2p and ml410 boards.
>>
>> I really think we shouldn't add stuff to arch/ppc at this point,
>> it has been deprecated for over two years now.
>
> Naahh, this is pretty benign stuff.  I say let it go in.  :-)
>
> These changes are low risk and they don't hurt anything.  If Virtex
> support worked in arch/powerpc then I'd agree, but for now it allows
> us to keep the virtex device driver support somewhat current.

We've clearly stated for a while that only bug fixes should be going  
into arch/ppc.  This looks like new board support.

Also, be aware that arch/ppc is going away in Jun 2008. :)

- k


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