[PATCH 16/16] Support for Ebony in arch/powerpc

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Feb 14 11:20:09 EST 2007


On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:18:57AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  >  config 440GP
>  >  	bool
>  >  	depends on EBONY
>  > -	default y
>  > +	select IBM_NEW_EMAC_ZMII
>  > + 	default y
> 
> Maybe we could take this opportunity to clean up the CPU selection in
> Kconfig and use select instead... right now we have a mess like
> 
> config 440GP
>         bool
>         depends on EBONY
>         default y
> 
> config 440
>         bool
>         depends on 440GP || 440SP || 440SPE || 440EP
>         default y
> 
> etc... -- it would be nice for this to look like
> 
> config EBONY
> 	bool
> 	select 440GP
> 
> config 440GP
> 	bool
> 	select IBM_NEW_EMAC_ZMII
> 	select 440
> 
> config 440
> 	bool
> 
> I'm happy to do this cleanup after things settle down though

Yes, I've been thinking about something like that.  Sounds good to
me.  At the same time we need to change the board options from a
choice to individual bools, since it should now be possible to make a
kernel bootable on multiple boards.

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