From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net>
To: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, paulus@samba•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix interrupt routing and setup of ULI M1575 on FSL boards
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:36:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070911193607.GA13105@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24F46474-1425-4C8B-A400-4D18D28932F2@freescale.com>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:43:59PM -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
> >> Maybe it would make more sense for you guys to slice the platforms
> >> differently, and have a common platform for the eval boards you have
> >> with ULi on them instead of grouping it by core used by the processor
> >> on the board.
> >>
> >> (In other words, move 86xx over under 85xx, since there wouldn't be
> >> much
> >> left over anyway).
> >
> > Moving 86xx (classic 74xx core) under 85xx (book e500 core) makes
> > even less sense to me.
>
> Yeah, that makes *no* sense to me either. It's an unfortunate
> artifact of the naming of boards to include the core name. While the
> devices and boards may be similar, once you have bookE vs non-bookE
> cores, they become quite different.
It doesn't make sense if you move 86xx under 85xx right now, no.
What I meant (but didn't write) was more along the lines of forking off
a new platform (I don't know if you have a common code name for the SoC
side, but fsl-whatever) that contains the SoC and board support for the
parts and boards that share much (looks like the latest gen 85xx and
8641 would be candidates).
Looks like the CPM2-based stuff could be candidates for something similar
as well, but there's less activity there so there's less reason to rework
those, I suppose.
Of course, down the road I'm sure there'll be a part that contains 75%
of the current SoC, plus something new. And the next gen after that only
contains the 25% non-shared plus 75% brand new stuff and it all falls
apart. Not knowing your roadmap I have a hard time judging if that's
likely though. :-)
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-11 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 5:03 [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix interrupt routing and setup of ULI M1575 on FSL boards Kumar Gala
2007-08-17 8:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-17 12:50 ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-17 23:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-08-18 5:30 ` Kumar Gala
2007-09-11 17:20 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-11 18:00 ` Kumar Gala
2007-09-11 18:22 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-11 18:33 ` Kumar Gala
2007-09-11 18:43 ` Becky Bruce
2007-09-11 19:08 ` Kumar Gala
2007-09-11 19:22 ` Becky Bruce
2007-09-11 19:38 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-11 19:45 ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-11 19:47 ` Kumar Gala
2007-09-11 19:36 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-09-12 6:33 ` [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix interrupt routing and setup of ULI M1575 onFSL boards Swarthout Edward L-SWARTHOU
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