if i want powerpc "local bus" support, must i select CONFIG_FSL_LBC?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  trying to make a long story short, was handed an aging powerpc
MPC8360e system on which to place linux, along with a BSP that does in
fact generate a bootable kernel and filesystem. however, according to
this online page (and i am *not* in any way a powerpc expert):

http://cache.freescale.com/files/netcomm/doc/fact_sheet/MPC8360EFS.pdf

this processor has something called a "local bus", off of which on
this board hang things like DSP, FPGA and other things.

  during boot, i can see absolutely no mention of any of the devices
attached to this local bus, or even that the bus itself is recognized,
then i noticed that the .config file used to build this 3.14.29 kernel
does not select what looks like the appropriate kernel option FSL_LBC.

  if anyone out there is a powerpc expert, can you confirm that you
need to select that option (and hence compile in the source file
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_lbc.c) to get that support?

  i'm puzzled only because, if that file is required for local bus
support, the people who gave us the BSP really should have turned it
on.

  thanks for any guidance.

rday

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