Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/7] powerpc: Add mpc8360epb platform support

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:00:04 +1000

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 18:27 +0800, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vitaly Bordug [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:59 AM
> > To: Li Yang-r58472
> > Cc: 'Paul Mackerras'; [email-masked]; Phillips Kim-R1AAHA; Chu
> > hanjin-r52514; Yin Olivia-r63875; [email-masked]'
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] powerpc: Add mpc8360epb platform support
> > 
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:23:03 +0800
> > Li Yang-r58472 <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > >
> > >  config MPC834x
> > > @@ -24,4 +31,10 @@ config MPC834x
> > >  	select PPC_INDIRECT_PCI
> > >  	default y if MPC834x_SYS
> > >
> > > +config MPC836x
> > > +	bool
> > > +	select PPC_UDBG_16550
> > 
> > debug option made default?
> 
> I'm afraid this is needed to boot.  83xx family platforms need it to initialize early console.  And it does appear in several defconfigs of other platforms.

How so ? Why would having a serial console be mandatory ? Embedded might
want to boot without a console and use the serial port for other things.
This should be left as a config option (though you are welcome to put it
in the defconfig for your platform)
 
> > > +	select PPC_INDIRECT_PCI
> > > +	default y if MPC8360E_PB
> > > +
> > >  endmenu
> 
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