From: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] runtime platform detection in GENERIC kernels
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:47:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705794@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705791@msgid-missing>
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:32:53AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>
> Why not just make a runtime strcmp to platform_name? Then
> you could make a generic is_platform("sn2") type function/macro
> that everyone could use and you'd get rid of that nasty init
> function. If you realy need to make such a check in a perfmance
> path, it should probably be a machvec. Thanks,
That sounds fine to me. I was certainly aiming to keep this
in non-performance critical regions. I'd actually like to
restrict its use to init decisions, such as which serial
console driver to use.
mh
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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 [this message]
2003-05-14 20:49 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-05-16 19:21 ` Martin Hicks
2003-05-16 19:35 ` Alex Williamson
2003-05-20 19:56 ` Martin Hicks
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