Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:50:13 +1000

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:47 +0800, Zang Roy-r61911 wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 12:16, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > This patch is a slightly cleaned up version of Zang Roy's support for
> > the TSI108 MPIC variant. It also fixes up MPC7448_hpc2 to use the new
> > version of the type macros and changes the way MPIC is selected in
> > Kconfig to better match what is done for other system devices.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <[email-masked]> 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > 
> > Zang Roy, please verify that it still works for you. I've tested it on
> > an Apple G5 with and without CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD .
> > 
> 
> It works OK on my mpc7448hpc2 board. 
> There is a sequence for the patch applying.
> 
> (1) patch for IRQ update for mpc7448hpc2:
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-August/025559.html
> 
> (2) the weird mpic patch repost by your mail.
> (3) the following minor patch to build mpic.o for CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD

The later shouldn't be needed.

CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD is an _addition_ to CONFIG_MPIC. That is, for example,
your HPC2 platform should define both CONFIG_MPIC and CONFIG_MPIC_WEIRD

Ben.