Andy, You are generally right. The good practice would be to modify the QE initialization tables for all relevant boards. There are 4 such boards, and I can resubmit the patch to include them. Just please note that this value is only relevant for general purpose I/O pins (defined as output). Looking at these 4 boards you can see that all their I/O pins are defined as special functions, so this patch is harmless there. BTW, I tested the patch on two of them (the MPC8568MDS and the MPC8360MDS).
Regards, David.
I'm not fundamentally against this patch in principle, but I'm concerned about your statement about boards that don't add the field not needing it. Wouldn't this open up potential bugs with uninitialized variables being written out to the hardware?
Andy