From: Alex Williamson <alex_williamson@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] runtime platform detection in GENERIC kernels
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:35:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705910@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705791@msgid-missing>
Martin Hicks wrote:
> Here is the next iteration, based on your suggestions. It also caches
> the result of the first acpi_get_sysname() call, since this really
> shouldn't change while the machine is running.
>
Martin,
Everything is already in place to make this much easier.
I was thinking something more like this:
#define ia64_platform_is(x) (strcmp(x,platform_name) = 0)
The name is stored in the machvec, so you don't need to cache
it anywhere else.
Alex
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Alex Williamson HP Linux & Open Source Lab
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-16 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 15:03 [Linux-ia64] runtime platform detection in GENERIC kernels Martin Hicks
2003-05-14 15:32 ` Alex Williamson
2003-05-14 15:47 ` Martin Hicks
2003-05-14 20:49 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-05-16 19:21 ` Martin Hicks
2003-05-16 19:35 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2003-05-20 19:56 ` Martin Hicks
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