From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19262DDF14 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:05:13 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: add phy-handle property for fec_mpc52xx From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Paul Mackerras In-Reply-To: <18309.33088.653225.116715@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20080109140608.GA15673@aepfle.de> <4784E78C.40904@genesi-usa.com> <1199893757.2978.73.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <18309.33088.653225.116715@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:04:44 +1100 Message-Id: <1199941484.6734.226.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Olaf Hering , David Woodhouse Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:21 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > David Woodhouse writes: > > > It would be much better if the kernel would 'just work'. The ideal way > > of achieving that is for the firmware to be fixed -- but that's been > > promised for a long time now, and we just don't believe you any more. So > > working round it in the kernel seems to be the next best option. > > Does the efika use a boot wrapper? If so then putting the fixup in > the boot wrapper might be better. It's standard OF boot process, the fixup belongs in prom_init. Grant has a better version of the patch that puts the fixup along with other efika related ones that are already there. Cheers, Ben.