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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
	<benh-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr-3FnU+UHB4dNDw9hX6IcOSA@public.gmane.org>,
	devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org,
	linuxppc-dev-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] of/address: restrict 'no-ranges' kludge to powerpc
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:23:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1C7A9067-DDE6-47D3-AC78-FDC081354519@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1276152275.1962.61.camel@pasglop>

>> Certain Apple machines don't use the ranges property correctly,  
>> but the
>> workaround should not be applied on other architectures.  This patch
>> disables the workaround for non-powerpc architectures.
>
> I'm half tempted to add it to the quirk list (which should really be
> made generic) so I can disable it on more 'modern' powerpc as well.

Oh please oh please oh please yes do.

OTOH, it would be even better to just fix up the device tree in the
early platform code.  Quirks are for broken hardware; software, we
can fix.


Segher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100608140917.25879.67745.stgit@angua>
2010-06-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/5] of/address: restrict 'no-ranges' kludge to powerpc Grant Likely
2010-06-10  6:44   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-10 14:28     ` Grant Likely
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTikg1hLdV_OUjc3QIhFatP_iLfVClhzmyixmjje1-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-11  1:12         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-15 16:23     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
     [not found]       ` <1C7A9067-DDE6-47D3-AC78-FDC081354519-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-16  0:33         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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