Bug#463200: linux-image-2.6-powerpc64: Please enable platform options for PA Semi boards on powerpc64

[Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:27:26AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:22:20PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > * Enable CONFIG_PPC_PASEMI for base platform support
> > * Enable CONFIG_PASEMI_MAC=m for ethernet drivers
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > * Enable CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA=y, since we tend to use those cards in some eval systems and it's convenient
> 
> Open firmware fb support is not enough for pre-userland?

Our firmware hands off the video in text mode (unlike ibm and apple
firmware that sets up and provides the framebuffer). Unfortunately the
64-bit kernels don't do the text-mode console though, so it needs the
framebuffer driver to get output.

Having it =m would work, the main drawback is some debugability loss.
But given that all boards have serial ports, they could be used for
console in those cases.

So =m would be OK with me.

> > * Enable CONFIG_PPC_PASEMI_MDIO=y  (it doesn't auto-probe well at the moment so =y is needed)
> 
> Even than it is a userspace thing to detect it. So you get =m.

It's a really small driver, but alright.

> > * CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_PASEMI=y to enable the hw rng driver
> > * CONFIG_I2C_PASEMI=y for i2c driver
> 
> The same.

Ok.

> > * CONFIG_EDAC=m and CONFIG_PASEMI_EDAC=m for edac support (ECC error reporting)
> 
> Okay. This is a generic thing, so maybe this should be enabled anyway.

Sure.


Thanks,

Olof