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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.4.21-bjorn-bk) Minimalist PAL mapping for SN2
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:38:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105883803301804@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105832171829546@msgid-missing>

On Friday 18 July 2003 7:05 pm, Christopher Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:13:02AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> > But I do prefer the machine vector approach, and there are several
> > other machine vectors used only at boot-time, so I don't think
> > that's an issue.
> 
> I've done this but must say it feels like excessive abstraction and an
> overkill approach.

Take a look at some existing machine vector implemetations
(platform_setup, platform_cpu_init, etc).  You should be
able to place the code to eliminate the #ifdefs, i.e., by
putting the SGI pal_map stuff in a file that's already
SGI-specific.

Bjorn


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-22  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-16  2:14 [PATCH] (2.4.21-bjorn-bk) Minimalist PAL mapping for SN2 Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-16 15:22 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-16 18:23 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-17 17:42 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-17 17:57 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-17 22:52 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-18  2:22 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-18 16:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-19  1:05 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-22  1:38 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2003-07-22 21:26 ` Christopher Wedgwood

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