linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] Please pull from powerpc.git merge branch

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:54 -0500
From:	Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@...escale.com>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] Please pull from powerpc.git merge branch


On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:13 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:51 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o: In function `ep8248e_mdio_probe':
>>> /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26/linux-2.6.26.ppc/arch/powerpc/ 
>>> platforms/82xx/ep8248e.c:129: undefined reference to  
>>> `alloc_mdio_bitbang'
>>> /builddir/build/BUILD/kernel-2.6.26/linux-2.6.26.ppc/arch/powerpc/ 
>>> platforms/82xx/ep8248e.c:143: undefined reference to  
>>> `mdiobus_register'
>>
>> FS_ENET and EP8248E both select MDIO_BITBANG, but not PHYLIB or  
>> MII, which
>> looks broken to me.
>>
>> Also, I think it would be useful to split out the bitbang
>> driver from ep8248e.c, so that you can build it as a loadable
>> module if you want to have PHYLIB loadable.
>
> On that note... I already run it through an autobuilder with a bunch  
> of
> configs before uploading (though obviously not this one). Kumar, can  
> you
> send me 2 or 3 configs you believe cover a reasonable range of the fsl
> stuff that I could stick into my list for next time ?

For e500/85xx use the mpc85xx_defconfig that is in the kernel.  I want  
to add a ppc6xx_defconfig to cover all 6xx based platforms that are  
reasonable (all that are cache coherent to it will exclude 51xx).

We are using mpc885_ads_defconfig for 8xx right now.

- k
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